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“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

“For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.”
― Henry Miller

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.”
― Edith Wharton

“Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.”
― Thornton Wilder, Our Town

“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”
― Isaac Asimov

“Just the other day, I was in my neighborhood Starbucks, waiting for the post office to open. I was enjoying a chocolatey cafe mocha when it occurred to me that to drink a mocha is to gulp down the entire history of the New World. From the Spanish exportation of Aztec cacao, and the Dutch invention of the chemical process for making cocoa, on down to the capitalist empire of Hershey, PA, and the lifestyle marketing of Seattle's Starbucks, the modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top.”
― Sarah Vowell

“Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.”
― Confucius

“Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.”
― Derek Walcott

“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”
― Colette

“It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.”
― Gertrude Stein

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
― Alice Walker

“Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.”
― Anthony Burgess

“Spring is the time of plans and projects.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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

“The only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read”
― Tom Clancy

“I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

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

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

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
― William Faulkner

“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.”
― Aldous Huxley

“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
― Alexander Pope

“Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep—it can't be done abruptly.”
― Colm Tóibín

“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
― Helen Keller

“I know all about endings. It is beginnings that elude me.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ancestors of Avalon

“Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.”
― John Cheever

“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
― Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades