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  • #121
    Charles Bukowski
    “what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #122
    Charles Bukowski
    “My ambition is handicapped by laziness”
    Charles Bukowski, Factotum

  • #123
    Charles Bukowski
    “If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose”
    Charles Bukowski and Carl Weissner

  • #124
    Yevgeny Zamyatin
    “A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't even be worth reading.”
    Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

  • #125
    H.P. Lovecraft
    “It is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at all.”
    H.P. Lovecraft, Collected Essays 5: Philosophy, Autobiography and Miscellany

  • #126
    Albert Schweitzer
    “There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.”
    Albert Schweitzer

  • #127
    Harper Lee
    “There's just some kind of men you have to shoot before you can say hidy to 'em. Even then, they ain't worth the bullet it takes to shoot 'em.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #128
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #129
    Laura Purdie  Salas
    “And she is the reader
    who browses the shelf
    and looks for new worlds
    but finds herself.”
    Laura Purdie Salas, BookSpeak!: Poems about Books

  • #130
    Sanober  Khan
    “the intensity
    in your eyes

    burns my pen
    as i write.”
    Sanober Khan, A touch, a tear, a tempest

  • #131
    Ernest Hemingway
    “I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #132
    Ernest Hemingway
    “we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.”
    Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

  • #133
    Anton Chekhov
    “What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.”
    A.P. Chekhov

  • #134
    Ray Bradbury
    “There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.”
    Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

  • #135
    Amie Kaufman
    “Patience and Silence had one beautiful daughter. And her name was Vengeance.”
    Amie Kaufman, Gemina

  • #136
    Ingeborg Bachmann
    “I am writing with my burnt hand about the nature of fire.”
    Ingeborg Bachmann

  • #137
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
    Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

  • #138
    “And, most days she survives on coffee, poetry and love...romancing herself back to life.”
    N.R.Hart

  • #139
    Cassandra Clare
    “Just coffee. Black—like my soul.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

  • #140
    Mikhail Lermontov
    “Out of life's storm I carried only a few ideas - and not one feeling.”
    Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time

  • #141
    Mikhail Lermontov
    “Afraid of decision, I buried my finer feelings in the depths of my heart and they died there.”
    Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time

  • #142
    Ray Bradbury
    “I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.”
    Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

  • #143
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “It takes two to make an accident.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #144
    J.M. Barrie
    “He was a poet; and they are never exactly grown-up.”
    J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

  • #145
    Ernest Hemingway
    “All thinking men are atheists.”
    Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

  • #146
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Today is the sort of day where the sun only comes up to humiliate you.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

  • #147
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “And the rest is rust and stardust.”
    Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

  • #148
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.”
    Vladimir Nabokov

  • #149
    Jay Kristoff
    “It's easy to lose yourself in the idea of a person and be blinded to their reality.”
    Jay Kristoff, Stormdancer

  • #150
    “paliliśmy papierosy, choć zatruwały nasze ciała,
    paliliśmy gazety, bo zatruwały nasze umysły”
    Ryszard Krynicki, Wiersze wybrane



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