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“I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.”
― Steve Martin

“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
― Sarah Williams

“When you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”
― William Saroyan

“I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that.”
― Bob Newhart

“If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers.”
― Ed Sullivan

“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

“The mind I love must have wild places.”
― Katherine Mansfield

“Literature is humanity talking to itself.”
― Norman Rush

“My ambition was to live like music.”
― Mary Gaitskill

“What is so marvelous about living today is that it is possible to extend, like a flower, spreading petals in all directions.”
― Carolyn Kizer

“No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”
― Stephen Hawking

“I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.”
― Simone de Beauvoir , La vieillesse

“Some things you know all your life. They are so simple and true they must be said without elegance, meter and rhyme...they must be naked and alone, they must stand for themselves.”
― Philip Levine

“Don't be afraid. There's the two of us now.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

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

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

“Books are the carriers of civilization...They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman

“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

“The tides are in our veins, we still mirror the stars, life is your child, but there is in me
Older and harder than life and more impartial, the eye that watched before there was an ocean.”
― Robinson Jeffers

“That which you believe becomes your world.”
― Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come

“Believe in life! Always human beings will progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois

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

“When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“There is always something left to love. And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.”
― Lorraine Hansberry

“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.”
― Jack Kerouac

“There is a wilderness we walk alone
However well-companioned”
― Stephen Vincent Benét, Western Star

“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.”
― Albert Einstein

“This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.”
― Ben Okri, The Famished Road