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  • #1
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #2
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    Robert Frost

  • #3
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    Mark Twain

  • #4
    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    Jorge Luis Borges

  • #5
    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

  • #6
    Simon Van Booy
    “Coincidences mean you're on the right path.”
    Simon Van Booy, Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories

  • #7
    “If you retain nothing else, always remember the most important rule of beauty, which is: who cares?”
    Tina Fey, Bossypants

  • #8
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Short cuts make long delays.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #9
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #10
    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    Elie Wiesel

  • #11
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #12
    Peter Kreeft
    “In an age of hope men looked up at the night sky and saw “the heavens." In an age of hopelessness they call it simply “space.”
    Peter Kreeft

  • #13
    Cassandra Clare
    “Not everything that's true needs to be said.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

  • #14
    Simon Van Booy
    “[I] read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.”
    Simon Van Booy

  • #15
    Douglas Adams
    “The story so far:
    In the beginning the Universe was created.
    This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
    Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

  • #16
    Allen Saunders
    “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
    Allen Saunders

  • #18
    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    Mark Twain

  • #18
    Orson Scott Card
    “Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself.”
    Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

  • #19
    Bill Willingham
    “Baba Yaga: "... What are his powers"
    Mirror on the wall: "He reads”
    Bill Willingham

  • #20
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

  • #21
    Simon Pegg
    “Being a geek is all about being honest about what you enjoy and not being afraid to demonstrate that affection. It means never having to play it cool about how much you like something. It’s basically a license to proudly emote on a somewhat childish level rather than behave like a supposed adult. Being a geek is extremely liberating.”
    Simon Pegg

  • #22
    Bill Willingham
    “I'm about to start reading it again, because what good is a story you only want to read once?”
    Bill Willingham

  • #23
    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

  • #24
    Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
    “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
    Theodore Roosevelt

  • #25
    Théophile Gautier
    “Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign.”
    Théophile Gautier

  • #26
    Orson Scott Card
    “So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.”
    Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

  • #28
    Gregory Maguire
    “People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.”
    Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

  • #29
    Jasper Fforde
    “I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind.”
    Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey

  • #31
    Simon Van Booy
    “Music is only a mystery to people who want it explained. Music and love are the same.”
    Simon Van Booy, Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories

  • #31
    Simon Van Booy
    “Language allows us to reach out to people, to touch them with our innermost fears, hopes, disappointments, victories. To reach out to people we'll never meet.
    It's the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children or your loved ones:
    The history of how you felt.”
    Simon Van Booy



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