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“If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way.”
― Napoleon Hill

“Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.”
― Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

“If you're 50 years old or younger, give every book about 50 pages before you decide to commit yourself to reading it, or give it up.

If you're over 50, which is when time gets shorter, subtract your age from 100 - the result is the number of pages you should read before deciding whether or not to quit. If you're 100 or over you get to judge the book by its cover, despite the dangers in doing so.”
― Nancy Pearl

“Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair

“Not everyone can look past an insult and continue to work with the person who slights them”
― Jean Johnson

“Forget trying to pass for normal. Follow your geekdom. Embrace nerditude. In the immortal words of Lafcadio Hearn, a geek of incredible obscurity whose work is still in print after a hundred years, “Woo the muse of the odd.” You may be a geek. You may have geek written all over you. You should aim to be one geek they'll never forget. Don't aim to be civilized. Don’t hope that straight people will keep you on as some sort of pet. To hell with them. You should fully realize what society has made of you and take a terrible revenge. Get weird. Get way weird. Get dangerously weird. Get sophisticatedly, thoroughly weird, and don't do it halfway. Put every ounce of horsepower you have behind it. Don't become a well-rounded person. Well-rounded people are smooth and dull. Become a thoroughly spiky person. Grow spikes from every angle. Stick in their throats like a pufferfish.”
― Bruce Sterling

“Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.”
― Neil Gaiman

“Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.”
― Jane Yolen, Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood

“I know there’s evil in the world, and there always has been. But you don’t need to believe in Satan or demons to explain it. Human beings are perfectly capable of evil all by themselves.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Mephisto Club

“Keep your mind too open, and you never know what might walk in.”
― Simon R. Green, Drinking Midnight Wine

“Nothing is hidden, nothing is ever lost, nothing is ever forgotten. That's always been part of my problem.”
― Simon R. Green, Drinking Midnight Wine

“It's always thoughts of family that drive me crazy, and it's always my friends who bring me back.
Agents of Light and Darkness p.218”
― Simon R. Green, Agents of Light and Darkness

“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
― Franz Kafka

“Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for.”
― Brian Selznick, Wonderstruck

“Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
― Raymond Carver