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“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”
― Simone Weil

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

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

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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

“To this generation I would say:
Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty.”
― Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology

“Am I alive and a reality, or am I but a dream?”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan

“There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.”
― Janet Frame

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
― John Locke

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

“One day might be different from another, but there ain't much difference when they're put together.”
― William H. Armstrong

“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“Can't help who you fall in love with, princess.”
― Belle Aurora, Willing Captive

“The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”
― Katherine Mansfield

“I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.”
― Michael Crichton

“The men who cannot laugh at themselves frighten me even more than those who laugh at everything.”
― Anne Perry, The Whitechapel Conspiracy

“Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.”
― Walker Evans

“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
― Will Rogers

“The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

“Be glad. Be good. Be brave.”
― Eleanor Hodgman Porter

“Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
― Haruki Marukami

“Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”
― Moliere

“The future is now. It's time to grow up and be strong. Tomorrow may well be too late.”
― Neil LaBute, Reasons to Be Pretty

“How wrong to have been so negative, how wrong to have been so gloomy, how wrong to have run away from life, how wrong to have said no, again and again, instead of yes.”
― Jonathan Franzen

“If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

“They say that when you're about to die, your life flashes before your eyes. They never tell you that when you watch someone you once loved dying, hovering between this life and the next, it's twice as painful, because you're reliving two lives that traveled one road together.”
― Becca Fitzpatrick, Black Ice

“I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move against me while you sleep & there are no words for that.”
― Brian Andreas, Story People

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