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  • #1
    Kahlil Gibran
    “Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,
    That we may record our emptiness.”
    Kahlil Gibran

  • #2
    Terry Pratchett
    “The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
    Terry Pratchett, Diggers

  • #3
    Terry Pratchett
    “Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
    Terry Pratchett, Jingo

  • #4
    Terry Pratchett
    “I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.”
    Terry Pratchett

  • #5
    Terry Pratchett
    “Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.”
    Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

  • #6
    Terry Pratchett
    “Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down out of the sky, reminding any thoughtful watcher that it is in the deserts and high places that religions are generated. When men see nothing but bottomless infinity over their heads they have always had a driving and desperate urge to find someone to put in the way.”
    Terry Pratchett , Jingo

  • #7
    Terry Pratchett
    “Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”
    Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

  • #8
    Terry Pratchett
    “You're not allowed to call them dinosaurs any more," said Yo-less. "It's speciesist. You have to call them pre-petroleum persons.”
    Terry Pratchett, Johnny and the Bomb

  • #9
    Terry Pratchett
    “Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more.”
    Terry Pratchett

  • #10
    Terry Pratchett
    “...the proliferation of luminous fungi or iridescent crystals in deep caves where the torchlessly improvident hero needs to see is one of the most obvious intrusions of narrative causality into the physical universe.”
    Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

  • #11
    Jane Yolen
    “Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.”
    Jane Yolen, Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood

  • #12
    Bill Watterson
    “People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.”
    Bill Watterson, The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book

  • #13
    Bill Watterson
    “It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.”
    Bill Watterson

  • #14
    Bill Watterson
    “Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and said 'I think I’ll drink whatever comes out of these when I squeeze ’em?”
    Bill Watterson

  • #15
    Bill Watterson
    “History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are always reinterpreted when values change. We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.”
    Bill Watterson, Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat

  • #16
    Bill Watterson
    “That's one of the remarkable things about life. It's never so bad that it can't get worse.”
    Bill Watterson

  • #17
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #18
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain common work as it comes certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life.”
    Robert Louis Stevenson

  • #19
    Erasmus
    “When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
    Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

  • #20
    Alexander McCall Smith
    “You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel.”
    Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

  • #21
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.”
    Ursula K. LeGuin

  • #22
    Hermann Hesse
    “Gaze into the fire, into the clouds, and as soon as the inner voices begin to speak... surrender to them. Don't ask first whether it's permitted, or would please your teachers or father or some god. You will ruin yourself if you do that.”
    Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
    tags: self

  • #23
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

  • #24
    Mother Teresa
    “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
    Mother Teresa

  • #25
    Irina Dunn
    “A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.”
    Irina Dunn

  • #26
    Helen Keller
    “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
    Helen Keller

  • #27
    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    Bernard M. Baruch

  • #28
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

  • #29
    John Keats
    “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
    Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on.”
    John Keats, The Complete Poems

  • #30
    Margaret Atwood
    “Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving things out: where life grunts and shuffles, romance only sighs.”
    Margaret Atwood



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