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  • #1
    Leonard Cohen
    “I don't remember
    lighting this cigarette
    and I don't remember
    if I'm here alone
    or waiting for someone.”
    Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing

  • #2
    Leonard Cohen
    “In My Secret Life"

    "I saw you this morning,
    you were moving so fast.
    Can't seem to loosen my grip
    On the past.
    And I miss you so much,
    there's no one in sight.
    And we're still making love
    In my secret life.
    I smile when I am angry,
    I cheat and I lie,
    I do what I have to do
    to get by,
    In my secret life.”
    Leonard Cohen

  • #3
    Leonard Cohen
    “Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don't know what to say.”
    Leonard Cohen

  • #4
    P.D. James
    “If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed to celibacy. In no area of human experience are human beings more convinced that something better can be had only if they persevere.”
    P.D. James, The Children of Men

  • #5
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

  • #6
    Ray Bradbury
    “I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
    Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

  • #7
    Shel Silverstein
    “Do a loony-goony dance
    'Cross the kitchen floor,
    Put something silly in the world
    That ain't been there before.”
    Shel Silverstein, A Light in the Attic

  • #8
    Desmond Tutu
    “Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
    Desmond Tutu

  • #9
    Augustine of Hippo
    “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
    St. Augustine

  • #10
    Carl Sagan
    “Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.”
    Carl Sagan, Cosmos

  • #11
    Dr. Seuss
    “Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before! What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!”
    Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

  • #12
    Dylan Thomas
    “Do not go gentle into that good night.
    Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
    Dylan Thomas, In Country Sleep, and Other Poems

  • #13
    Khaled Hosseini
    “But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
    Khaled Hosseini

  • #14
    Edward Albee
    “You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?”
    Edward Albee

  • #15
    George Plimpton
    “I have never been convinced there's anything inherently wrong in having fun. ”
    George Plimpton

  • #16
    Barbara Kingsolver
    “Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.”
    Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

  • #17
    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    Mark Twain

  • #18
    Ben Jonson
    “Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
    You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow;
    Best, while you have it, use your breath;
    There is no drinking after death.”
    Ben Jonson

  • #19
    Lucille Clifton
    “may you kiss
    the wind then turn from it
    certain that it will
    love your back”
    Lucille Clifton

  • #20
    Annie Proulx
    “You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
    Annie Proulx

  • #21
    Paulo Coelho
    “No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  • #22
    Anne Bradstreet
    “Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.”
    Anne Bradstreet

  • #23
    Shel Silverstein
    “Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.”
    Shel Silverstein, The Giving Tree

  • #24
    Confucius
    “Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.”
    Confucius

  • #25
    Graham Greene
    “Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.”
    Graham Greene

  • #26
    Thomas Keneally
    “Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.”
    Thomas Keneally, Schindler’s List

  • #27
    Ezra Pound
    “The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
    Petals on a wet black bough.”
    Ezra Pound

  • #28
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

  • #29
    J.G. Ballard
    “I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.”
    J.G. Ballard

  • #30
    Nadine Gordimer
    “The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.”
    Nadine Gordimer



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