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  • #1
    Ray Bradbury
    “Dandelion wine. The words were summer on the tongue. The wine was summer caught and stoppered...sealed away for opening on a January day with snow falling fast and the sun unseen for weeks...”
    Ray Bradbury

  • #2
    Mark Twain
    “When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
    Mark Twain

  • #3
    Diana Nyad
    “I wanted to teach myself some life lessons at the age of 60 and one of them was that you don’t give up.”
    Diana Nyad

  • #4
    Philip Levine
    “Some things you know all your life. They are so simple and true they must be said without elegance, meter and rhyme...they must be naked and alone, they must stand for themselves.”
    Philip Levine

  • #5
    LeVar Burton
    “For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.”
    LeVar Burton

  • #6
    نزار قباني
    “In the summer
    I stretch out on the shore
    And think of you. Had I told the sea
    What I felt for you,
    It would have left its shores,
    Its shells,
    Its fish,
    And followed me.”
    Nizar Qabbani

  • #7
    Tennessee Williams
    “If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.”
    Tennessee Williams, Conversations With Tennessee Williams

  • #8
    H.P. Lovecraft
    “The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.”
    H. P. Lovecraft

  • #9
    Jack Kerouac
    “There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.”
    Jack Kerouac, On the Road: The Original Scroll

  • #10
    Joseph Heller
    “Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”
    Joseph Heller, Catch-22

  • #11
    Raymond Carver
    “Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
    Raymond Carver

  • #13
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “A book, too, can be a star 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly.”
    Madeleine L'Engle
    tags: book, life, star

  • #14
    George Orwell
    “Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
    George Orwell

  • #15
    The constant happiness is curiosity.
    “The constant happiness is curiosity.”
    Alice Munro

  • #16
    Douglas Adams
    “Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”
    Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

  • #17
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
    Madeleine L'Engle

  • #18
    Harlan Coben
    “Years fly by, but the heart stays in the same place.”
    Harlan Coben, Promise Me

  • #19
    Diana Gabaldon
    “For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary”
    Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

  • #20
    The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have
    “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
    Alice Walker

  • #21
    Iris Johansen
    “If your feet are firmly planted on the ground you'll never be able to dance.”
    Iris Johansen, Countdown

  • #22
    Erika Swyler
    “Once you’ve held a book and really loved it, you forever remember the feel of it, its specific weight, the way it sits in your hand.”
    Erika Swyler, The Book of Speculation

  • #23
    William Trevor
    “I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.”
    William Trevor

  • #24
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    “Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.”
    Edward Bulwer Lytton

  • #25
    Carol Shields
    “Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.”
    Carol Shields

  • #26
    Ian McEwan
    “When it's gone, you'll know what a gift love was. You'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.”
    Ian McEwan, Enduring Love

  • #27
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #28
    James M. Cain
    “If your writing doesn't keep you up at night, it won't keep anyone else up either”
    James M. Cain

  • #29
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #30
    Margaret Atwood
    “Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
    Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale



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