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  • #1
    Samuel Beckett
    “We are all born mad. Some remain so.”
    Samuel Beckett

  • #2
    Henry Ward Beecher
    “Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
    Henry Ward Beecherr

  • #3
    Emily Dickinson
    “That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”
    Emily Dickinson

  • #4
    Mortimer J. Adler
    “In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
    Mortimer J. Adler

  • #5
    Zelda Fitzgerald
    “She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.”
    Zelda Fitzgerald, The Collected Writings

  • #6
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

  • #7
    Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to
    “Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.”
    George Sand

  • #8
    Philip K. Dick
    “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
    Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon

  • #9
    Dr. Seuss
    “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
    Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

  • #10
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    “Earth's crammed with heaven...
    But only he who sees, takes off his shoes.”
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh

  • #11
    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

  • #12
    Edward Albee
    “What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.”
    Edward Albee

  • #13
    Stéphane Mallarmé
    “Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.”
    Stéphane Mallarmé

  • #14
    Maya Angelou
    “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
    Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

  • #15
    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

  • #16
    Lois Lowry
    “It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.”
    Lois Lowry

  • #17
    Lois Lowry
    “The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”
    Lois Lowry, The Giver

  • #18
    William Shakespeare
    “All that glisters is not gold;
    Often have you heard that told:
    Many a man his life hath sold
    But my outside to behold:
    Gilded tombs do worms enfold.”
    William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

  • #19
    J.M. Barrie
    “I'm not young enough to know everything.”
    J.M. Barrie, The Admirable Crichton

  • #20
    Ambrose Bierce
    “Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.”
    Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

  • #21
    James Joyce
    “Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”
    James Joyce, Ulysses

  • #22
    Gary Paulsen
    “I read like a wolf eats.
    I read myself to sleep every night.”
    Gary Paulsen

  • #23
    Glen Cook
    “Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.”
    Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues

  • #24
    Iris Murdoch
    “Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.”
    Iris Murdoch, Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature

  • #25
    Hunter S. Thompson
    “A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.”
    Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

  • #26
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.”
    Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

  • #27
    H.P. Lovecraft
    “From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.”
    H.P. Lovecraft, Tales of H.P. Lovecraft

  • #28
    Do one thing every day that scares you.
    “Do one thing every day that scares you.”
    Eleanor Roosevelt

  • #29
    George Burns
    “If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age. ”
    George Burns

  • #30
    Gene Stratton-Porter
    “If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.”
    Gene Stratton-Porter, A Girl of the Limberlost



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