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  • #1
    Shel Silverstein
    “Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
    Shel Silverstein

  • #2
    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

  • #3
    Oscar Wilde
    “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

  • #4
    Laura Esquivel
    “Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves”
    Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate

  • #5
    Gustave Flaubert
    “Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.”
    Gustave Flaubert

  • #6
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #7
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #8
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #9
    Steve  Martin
    “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
    Steve Martin

  • #10
    Alice Hoffman
    “Books may well be the only true magic.”
    Alice Hoffman

  • #11
    Harvey Pekar
    “Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.”
    Harvey Pekar

  • #12
    L. Frank Baum
    “Never give up... No one knows what's going to happen next.”
    L. Frank Baum

  • #13
    Hettie Jones
    “are you breathing, are you lucky enough
    to be breathing”
    Hettie Jones

  • #14
    Italo Calvino
    “A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
    Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

  • #15
    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “We are crayons and lunchboxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds.”
    Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

  • #16
    Ivan Turgenev
    “If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”
    Ivan Turgenev

  • #17
    Sinclair Lewis
    “I think perhaps we want a more conscious life.”
    Sinclair Lewis

  • #18
    Mary Gaitskill
    “My ambition was to live like music.”
    Mary Gaitskill

  • #19
    Katharine Weber
    “Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That's the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what's left, that's the part you have to make up as you go.”
    Katharine Weber, The Music Lesson

  • #20
    Sarah Addison Allen
    “The Waverley sisters hadn't been close as children, but they were as thick as thieves now, the way adult siblings often are, the moment they realize that family is actually a choice.”
    Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost

  • #21
    Edith Sitwell
    “My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.”
    Edith Sitwell

  • #22
    Rebecca  Walker
    “. . . when it comes down to it, that’s what life is all about: showing up for the people you love, again and again, until you can’t show up anymore.”
    Rebecca Walker, Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence

  • #23
    Margaret Atwood
    “War is what happens when language fails.”
    Margaret Atwood

  • #24
    Margaret Atwood
    “A word after a word after a word is power.”
    Margaret Atwood

  • #25
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #26
    Dr. Seuss
    “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #27
    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #28
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

  • #29
    Mark Twain
    “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
    Mark Twain

  • #30
    William Shakespeare
    “Love all, trust a few,
    Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
    Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
    Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
    But never tax'd for speech.”
    William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well



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