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  • #1
    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    Mark Twain

  • #2
    Dorothy Allison
    “Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is the way you can both hate and love something you are not sure you understand.”
    Dorothy Allison, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure

  • #3
    Eudora Welty
    “All serious daring starts from within.”
    Eudora Welty, On Writing

  • #4
    Charlie Chaplin
    “Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.”
    Charles Chaplin

  • #5
    Cynthia Ozick
    “We take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”
    Cynthia Ozick

  • #6
    Ezra Pound
    “Literature is news that stays news.”
    Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading

  • #7
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #8
    Paula Fox
    “The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then on it's wrong.”
    Paula Fox

  • #9
    Sue Grafton
    “Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them.”
    Sue Grafton, M is for Malice

  • #10
    John Boyne
    “There's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them.”
    John Boyne

  • #11
    Rafael Sabatini
    “He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.”
    Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche

  • #12
    Alice B. Toklas
    “In the menu, there should be a climax and a culmination. Come to it gently. One will suffice.”
    Alice B. Toklas

  • #13
    Joseph Heller
    “He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.”
    Joseph Heller, Catch-22

  • #14
    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
    Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

  • #15
    Norman Mailer
    “Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.”
    Norman Mailer

  • #16
    “Things will be alright. People need to hear that. Life is good, just as it is. There isn't anything that I would change about my life.”
    George Dawson, Life Is So Good: One Man's Extraordinary Journey through the 20th Century and How he Learned to Read at Age 98

  • #17
    Thomas Pynchon
    “Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.”
    Thomas Pynchon

  • #18
    Barbara Taylor Bradford
    “We are each the authors of our own lives, Emma. We live in what we have created. There is no way to shift the blame and no one else to accept the accolades.”
    Barbara Taylor Bradford, A Woman of Substance

  • #19
    Richard P. Feynman
    “Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”
    Richard P. Feynman

  • #20
    Charles M. Schulz
    “Try not to have a good time...this is supposed to be educational.”
    Charles Schultz

  • #21
    Katharine Hepburn
    “If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.”
    Katharine Hepburn

  • #22
    Gary Paulsen
    “If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books.
    The book needs you.”
    Gary Paulsen, The Winter Room

  • #23
    “Do your thing and don't care if they like it.”
    Tina Fey, Bossypants

  • #24
    J.K. Rowling
    “Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

  • #25
    “To be happy with myself and always make others happy. To be confident and give others confidence in themselves. To smile, to surf, to laugh and make others laugh. To read more widely. To try to be more tolerant of my weaknesses and of others, and not to be so hard on myself all the time.”
    Chrissie Wellington, A Life Without Limits: A World Champion's Journey

  • #26
    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

  • #27
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #28
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #29
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #30
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa



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