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  • #1
    Stephen  King
    “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
    Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

  • #2
    Dr. Seuss
    “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #3
    Maya Angelou
    “I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.”
    maya angelou

  • #4
    Oscar Wilde
    “Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #5
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
    Kurt Vonnegut

  • #6
    Truman Capote
    “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
    Truman Capote

  • #7
    Rudyard Kipling
    “Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
    Rudyard Kipling

  • #8
    Harper Lee
    “People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #9
    Harper Lee
    “They're real strong magic, they make you have good luck. Not like fried chicken when you're not lookin' for it, but things like long life n' good health, n' passin' six weeks tests...these are real valuable to somebody. ”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #10
    Rudyard Kipling
    “Thou art of the Jungle and not of the Jungle. And I am only a black panther. But I love thee, Little Brother.”
    Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

  • #11
    Harper Lee
    “Dill was off again. Beautiful things floated around in his dreamy head. He could read two books to my one, but he preferred the magic of his own inventions.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #12
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    “There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.”
    Kazuo Ishiguro

  • #13
    Christopher Isherwood
    “One should never write down or up to people, but out of yourself.”
    Christopher Isherwood

  • #14
    Christopher Isherwood
    “If it’s going to be a world with no time for sentiment, it’s not a world that I want to live in.”
    Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man

  • #15
    Margaret Atwood
    “In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”
    Margaret Atwood, Bluebeard's Egg

  • #16
    Margaret Atwood
    “Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
    Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

  • #17
    Margaret Atwood
    “Potential has a shelf life.”
    Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

  • #18
    Pablo Neruda
    “As if you were on fire from within.

    The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”
    Pablo Neruda

  • #19
    Jorge Luis Borges
    “So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.”
    Jorge Luis Borges

  • #20
    Margaret Atwood
    “Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.”
    Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad

  • #21
    David Foster Wallace
    “The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”
    David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

  • #22
    David Foster Wallace
    “Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?"

    "I give."

    "You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog.”
    David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

  • #23
    Oscar Wilde
    “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #24
    Margaret Atwood
    “Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.”
    Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye

  • #25
    Pablo Neruda
    “Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
    Pablo Neruda, Love: Ten Poems

  • #26
    It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
    “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
    E.E. Cummings

  • #27
    Yusuf Islam
    “I listen to the wind, to the wind of my soul
    Where I end up, well, I think only God really knows”
    Cat Stevens, The Very Best Of Cat Stevens (PVG) Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords

  • #28
    Mark  Lawrence
    “Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you'll find an edge to cut you.”
    Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns

  • #29
    Arthur Miller
    “Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!”
    Arthur Miller, The Crucible

  • #30
    Arthur Miller
    “It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves”
    Arthur Miller, The Crucible



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