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  • #1
    Anthony  Powell
    “I get a warm feeling among my books.”
    Anthony Powell

  • #2
    Václav Havel
    “The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.”
    Vaclav Havel

  • #3
    Isaac Asimov
    “Any planet is 'Earth' to those that live on it.”
    Isaac Asimov, Pebble in the Sky

  • #4
    Albert Camus
    “When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.”
    Albert Camus, A Happy Death

  • #5
    Elizabeth Strout
    “I suspect the most we can hope for, and it's no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love.”
    Elizabeth Strout, Abide with Me

  • #6
    Stephen Hawking
    “We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”
    Stephen Hawking

  • #7
    Alan Paton
    “Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving. ”
    Alan Paton

  • #8
    Haruki Murakami
    “Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
    Haruki Marukami

  • #9
    Lorrie Moore
    “One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them.”
    Lorrie Moore, Like Life

  • #10
    Anchee Min
    “The sun doesn't just hang on one family's tree”
    Anchee Min, Empress Orchid
    tags: luck

  • #11
    Molière
    “Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”
    Moliere

  • #12
    Susan Sontag
    “Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.”
    Susan Sontag

  • #13
    Anne Brontë
    “It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.”
    Anne Brontë

  • #14
    Gilles Deleuze
    “A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.”
    Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

  • #15
    Federico Fellini
    “All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.”
    Federico Fellini

  • #16
    Louis Menand
    “Quotable quotes are coins rubbed smooth by circulation.”
    Louis Menand

  • #17
    Francis Bacon
    “Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”
    Francis Bacon

  • #18
    Stendhal
    “One can acquire everything in solitude except character.”
    Stendhal, Five Short Novels of Stendhal

  • #19
    William Congreve
    “Say what you will, ’tis better to be left than never to have been loved.”
    William Congreve

  • #20
    Gloria Naylor
    “The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul.”
    Gloria Naylor, Linden Hills

  • #21
    My course is set for an uncharted sea.
    “My course is set for an uncharted sea.”
    Dante Alighieri

  • #22
    Colette
    “I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.”
    Colette

  • #23
    W.C. Fields
    “It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.”
    W.C. Fields

  • #24
    Shirley Hazzard
    “Poetry has been the longest pleasure of my life.”
    Shirley Hazzard

  • #25
    Norman Mailer
    “I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.”
    Norman Mailer

  • #26
    Langston Hughes
    “Hold fast to dreams,
    For if dreams die
    Life is a broken-winged bird,
    That cannot fly.”
    Langston Hughes

  • #27
    Emily Dickinson
    “A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.”
    Emily Dickinson

  • #28
    Paul Auster
    “Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
    Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

  • #29
    Stewart O'Nan
    “You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.”
    Stewart O'Nan, The Odds: A Love Story

  • #30
    John Guare
    “It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.”
    John Guare, Landscape of the Body



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