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  • #1
    Alexander McCall Smith
    “You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel.”
    Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

  • #2
    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    “The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.”
    Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

  • #3
    Umberto Eco
    “We live for books.”
    Umberto Eco

  • #4
    “We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”
    Stephen Hawking

  • #5
    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

  • #6
    Patricia Highsmith
    “Anticipation! It occurred to him that his anticipation was more pleasant to him than the experiencing.”
    Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr. Ripley

  • #7
    Langston Hughes
    “Hold fast to dreams,
    For if dreams die
    Life is a broken-winged bird,
    That cannot fly.”
    Langston Hughes

  • #8
    Pierre Boulle
    “There's always some further action to take.”
    Pierre Boulle

  • #9
    “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
    Elizabeth Appell

  • #10
    Steve Wozniak
    “If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it's within your reach. And it'll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build. It'll be worth it, I promise.”
    Steve Wozniak

  • #11
    Rob Reiner
    “Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.”
    Rob Reiner

  • #12
    Stephanie Lahart
    “Replace the word can’t with can. Know that you can, believe that you can, and know will ALL of your heart that you will. You will succeed in spite of any obstacles that may try to hinder you! There’s so much power in having a positive attitude, positive mindset, and positive outlook.”
    Stephanie Lahart

  • #13
    Robert Frost
    “These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
    But I have promises to keep,
    And miles to go before I sleep,
    And miles to go before I sleep.”
    Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

  • #14
    Keri Hulme
    “You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read...”
    Keri Hulme, The Bone People

  • #15
    Erica Jong
    “Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”
    Erica Jong

  • #16
    Robert Bloch
    “Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
    Robert Bloch

  • #17
    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
    Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

  • #18
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
    Rumi

  • #19
    Joshua Slocum
    “I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.”
    Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone around the World



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