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“I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

“The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.”
― Edith Wharton

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
― Oscar Wilde

“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
― oscar wilde

“Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye

“And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into the mind of a stranger, and we find our common humanity doing this. So the book doesn't only belong to the writer, it belongs to the reader as well, and then together you make it what it is.”
― Paul Auster

“I love new clothes. If everyone could just wear new clothes everyday, I reckon depression wouldn’t exist anymore.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Confessions of a Shopaholic

“Honestly, shopping beats therapy, anytime. It costs the same and you get a dress out of it.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Mini Shopaholic

“Life's too short for minimalism.”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Secret Dreamworld of a shopaholic + Shopaholic Abroad + Shopaholic Ties the Knot

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“All it comes down to is this: I feel like shit but look great.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

“Look how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, Lunar Park

“We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.”
― Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth

“A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.”
― Edith Wharton

“Money follows art. Money wants what it can't buy. Class and talent. And remember while there's a talent for making money, it takes real talent to know how to spend it.”
― Candace Bushnell, One Fifth Avenue

“Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty-and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.”
― Doris Lessing

“When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.”
― John Steinbeck

“I guess there are never enough books.”
― John Steinbeck, A John Steinbeck Encyclopedia

“My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.”
― Virginia Woolf

“Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.”
― Virginia Woolf

“Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art”
― Virginia Woolf, The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Four: 1931-1935

“We live in stirring times- tea-stirring times.”
― Christopher Isherwood

“Like a long train which stops at every dingy little station, the winter dragged slowly past.”
― Christopher Isherwood, Mr Norris Changes Trains

“Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it.”
― Markus Zusak

“A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.”
― Ernest Hemingway