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  • #1
    Sigmund Freud
    “One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
    Sigmund Freud

  • #2
    Ann Rule
    “. . .three percent of all males are deemed to be antisocial and without conscience, while only one percent of females seem to lack compassion for others. But the icy manipulations of that one percent are utterly fascinating. No one can be crueler than a woman without a conscience.”
    Ann Rule, Empty Promises and Other True Cases

  • #3
    “To have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment. It is not inherited, as with a family. It is not compelling, as with a child. And it has no means of physical pleasure, as with a mate. It is, therefore, an indescribable bond that brings with it a far deeper devotion than all the others.”
    Frances Farmer, Will There Really Be a Morning?

  • #4
    David Sedaris
    “I haven't the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.”
    David Sedaris, Naked

  • #5
    David Sedaris
    “All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is said and done the police are right: it all comes down to fingerprints.”
    David Sedaris, Holidays on Ice

  • #6
    David Sedaris
    “A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.”
    David Sedaris

  • #8
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #9
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #10
    Jim Henson
    “There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.”
    Jim Henson, Favorite Songs From Jim Henson's Muppets

  • #11
    Jim Henson
    “The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children. ”
    Jim Henson

  • #12
    Louisa May Alcott
    “She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
    Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience

  • #13
    Louisa May Alcott
    “I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
    Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

  • #14
    Louisa May Alcott
    “I ask not for any crown
    But that which all may win;
    Nor try to conquer any world
    Except the one within.”
    Louisa May Alcott

  • #15
    Louisa May Alcott
    “That is a good book it seems to me, which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.”
    Louisa May Alcott

  • #16
    Dan Savage
    “The truly revolutionary promise of our nation's founding document is the freedom to pursue happiness-with-a-capital-H. ”
    Dan Savage, Skipping Towards Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America

  • #17
    Dan Savage
    “How can you tell somebody who is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?”
    Dan Savage

  • #18
    Lemony Snicket
    “People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.”
    Lemony Snicket, The Grim Grotto

  • #19
    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #20
    Lemony Snicket
    “It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #21
    Lemony Snicket
    “A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #22
    Sue Grafton
    “Except for cases that clearly involve a homicidal maniac, the police like to believe murders are committed by those we know and love, and most of the time they're right - a chilling thought when you sit down to dinner with a family of five. All those potential killers passing their plates.”
    Sue Grafton, A Is for Alibi

  • #23
    Matthew Pearl
    “Shakespeare brings us to know ourselves. Dante, with his dissection of all others, bids us to know one another.”
    Matthew Pearl, The Dante Club

  • #24
    Louisa May Alcott
    “Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.”
    Louisa May Alcott, Little Men

  • #25
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.”
    Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

  • #26
    Billy Sunday
    “Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.”
    Billy Sunday, "Billy" Sunday, the man and his message: with his own words which have won thousands for Christ

  • #27
    Jamie Lee Curtis
    “The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people.”
    Jamie Lee Curtis

  • #28
    Lemony Snicket
    “Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
    Lemony Snicket

  • #29
    Lemony Snicket
    “All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.”
    Lemony Snicket

  • #30
    Lemony Snicket
    “Well-read people are less likely to be evil.”
    Lemony Snicket, The Slippery Slope

  • #31
    Lemony Snicket
    “No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don't read is often as important as what you do read.”
    Lemony Snicket



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