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

“Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.”
― Stephen Jay Gould

“Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.”
― Sherwood Anderson

“Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

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

“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination

“We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.”
― Ursula K. LeGuin

“To learn something, to master something, anything, is as sweet as first love.”
― Geoffrey Wolff

“S wonderful! 'S marvelous!
That you should care for me!”
― Ira Gershwin

“Nothing on earth can make up for the loss of one who has loved you.”
― Selma Lagerlöf

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

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
― Neil Gaiman

“I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.”
― Colette

“We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.”
― Sinclair Lewis

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.”
― Charles M. Schulz

“There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”
― Irwin Shaw

“We humans are more complicated than animals, and we love through the imagination.”
― George Moore

“These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.”
― Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

“Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

“You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read...”
― Keri Hulme, The Bone People

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
― Louis L'Amour

“The first duty of wine is to be red. Don't talk to me of your white wines.”
― Henry Murger

“Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.”
― Sean O'Casey

“I think; therefore I am.”
― Rene Descartes

“We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.”
― Leonora Carrington

“You may not believe in magic but something very strange is happening at this very moment. Your head has dissolved into thin air and I can see the rhododendrons through your stomach. It's not that you are dead or anything dramatic like that, it is simply that you are fading away and I can't even remember your name.”
― Leonora Carrington, The Hearing Trumpet

“People under seventy and over seven are very unreliable if they are not cats.”
― Leonora Carrington, The Hearing Trumpet