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  • #1
    James Hilton
    “People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.”
    James Hilton, Lost Horizon

  • #2
    Christa Wolf
    “Between killing and dying there's a third way: live”
    Christa Wolf, Kassandra

  • #3
    Amy Bloom
    “You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
    Amy Bloom

  • #4
    Anna Quindlen
    “The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”
    Anna Quindlen

  • #5
    Robert Fulghum
    “We're all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love.”
    Robert Fulghum, True Love

  • #6
    Dr. Seuss
    “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #7
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    Mae West

  • #8
    Anne Rice
    “You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence and your suffering.”
    Anne Rice

  • #9
    Thomas Wolfe
    “Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.”
    Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again

  • #10
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #11
    Roald Dahl
    “So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
    Roald Dahl

  • #12
    Anne Enright
    “People do not change, they are merely revealed.”
    Anne Enright, The Gathering

  • #13
    Adam Lindsay Gordon
    “Life is mostly froth and bubble,
    Two things stand like stone.
    Kindness in another's trouble,
    Courage in your own.”
    Adam Lindsay Gordon

  • #14
    Italo Calvino
    “A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
    Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

  • #15
    Helen Hooven Santmyer
    “In a way, looking back, it seemed a long, long time since she had been eighteen, but in another way her memories were so clear and vivid that it seemed like yesterday.”
    Helen Hooven Santmyer

  • #16
    Thomas Hardy
    “They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.”
    Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

  • #17
    Chinua Achebe
    “The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.”
    Chinua Achebe

  • #18
    Neil Gaiman
    “Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections

  • #19
    Louisa May Alcott
    “I like good strong words that mean something…”
    Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

  • #20
    George Saunders
    “That luminous part of you that exists beyond personality–your soul, if you will–is as bright and shining as any that has ever been....Clear away everything that keeps you separate from this secret luminous place. Believe it exists, come to know it better, nurture it, share its fruits tirelessly.”
    George Saunders

  • #21
    Jamaica Kincaid
    “Friendship is a simple thing, and yet complicated; friendship is on the surface, something natural, something taken for granted, and yet underneath one could find worlds.”
    Jamaica Kincaid

  • #22
    Victor Hugo
    “Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.”
    Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame



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