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  • #1
    Joni Mitchell
    “We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.”
    Joni Mitchell

  • #2
    Astrid Lindgren
    “Give the children love, more love and still more love – and the common sense will come by itself.”
    Astrid Lindgren

  • #3
    Nadine Gordimer
    “The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.”
    Nadine Gordimer

  • #4
    Bill Nye
    “Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.”
    Bill Nye

  • #5
    Joseph Conrad
    “It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.”
    Joseph Conrad, An Outcast of the Islands

  • #6
    Noam Chomsky
    “We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.”
    Noam Chomsky

  • #7
    Amy Hempel
    “I want to know everything about you, so I tell you everything about myself.”
    Amy Hempel

  • #8
    Edna O'Brien
    “Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore meet its own extinguishment.”
    Edna O'Brien, In the Forest

  • #9
    Be glad. Be good. Be brave.
    “Be glad. Be good. Be brave.”
    Eleanor Hodgman Porter

  • #11
    Evelyn Waugh
    “It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.”
    Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

  • #12
    Abigail Van Buren
    “The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
    Abigail Van Buren

  • #13
    Lorrie Moore
    “One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them.”
    Lorrie Moore, Like Life

  • #14
    Anchee Min
    “The sun doesn't just hang on one family's tree”
    Anchee Min, Empress Orchid
    tags: luck

  • #15
    William Congreve
    “Say what you will, ’tis better to be left than never to have been loved.”
    William Congreve

  • #16
    Langston Hughes
    “Hold fast to dreams,
    For if dreams die
    Life is a broken-winged bird,
    That cannot fly.”
    Langston Hughes

  • #17
    J.M. Coetzee
    “Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?”
    J.M. Coetzee

  • #18
    Tom Bodett
    “They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
    Tom Bodett

  • #19
    George Moore
    “We humans are more complicated than animals, and we love through the imagination.”
    George Moore

  • #20
    Irwin Shaw
    “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



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