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  • #1
    William Faulkner
    “Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
    William Faulkner

  • #2
    “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

  • #3
    Elizabeth Bishop
    “The art of losing isn't hard to master;
    so many things seemed filled with the intent
    to be lost that their loss is no disaster”
    Elizabeth Bishop, The Complete Poems 1927-1979

  • #4
    Sherman Alexie
    “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

  • #5
    L. Frank Baum
    “Never give up... No one knows what's going to happen next.”
    L. Frank Baum

  • #6
    Hettie Jones
    “are you breathing, are you lucky enough
    to be breathing”
    Hettie Jones

  • #7
    Alice Childress
    “Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave, and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.”
    Alice Childress

  • #8
    Anne Enright
    “People do not change, they are merely revealed.”
    Anne Enright, The Gathering

  • #9
    Lily Tuck
    “Surprising yourself is a big thing for me—to go somewhere that I don’t even know I’m going.”
    Lily Tuck

  • #10
    Katherine Mansfield
    “The mind I love must have wild places.”
    Katherine Mansfield

  • #11
    Ava Gardner
    “The truth is, honey, I've enjoyed my life. I've had a hell of a good time.”
    Ava Gardner

  • #12
    Adam Lindsay Gordon
    “Life is mostly froth and bubble,
    Two things stand like stone.
    Kindness in another's trouble,
    Courage in your own.”
    Adam Lindsay Gordon

  • #13
    Zadie Smith
    “You are never stronger...than when you land on the other side of despair.”
    Zadie Smith, White Teeth

  • #14
    Henry Green
    “The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.”
    Henry Green

  • #15
    Neil Gaiman
    “Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections

  • #16
    Stieg Larsson
    “Everyone has secrets. It's just a matter of finding out what they are.”
    Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

  • #17
    Stephen Greenblatt
    “I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.”
    Stephen Greenblatt

  • #18
    James  Jones
    “That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.”
    James Jones, From Here to Eternity

  • #19
    Sinclair Lewis
    “I think perhaps we want a more conscious life.”
    Sinclair Lewis

  • #20
    Harlan Coben
    “..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.”
    Harlan Coben

  • #21
    Stephen        King
    “Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
    Stephen King

  • #22
    Madeleine de Scudéry
    “Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing.”
    Madeleine de Scudéry

  • #23
    William Steig
    “Oh, Life, I am yours. Whatever it is you want of me, I am ready to give.”
    William Steig, Dominic

  • #24
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.”
    Robert Louis Stevenson, Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson

  • #25
    Katharine Weber
    “Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That's the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what's left, that's the part you have to make up as you go.”
    Katharine Weber, The Music Lesson

  • #26
    Mary Gaitskill
    “My ambition was to live like music.”
    Mary Gaitskill

  • #27
    Chinua Achebe
    “The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.”
    Chinua Achebe

  • #28
    Nuruddin Farah
    “I have tried my best to keep my country alive by writing about it.”
    Nuruddin Farah

  • #29
    Thomas Hardy
    “They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.”
    Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

  • #30
    Marjane Satrapi
    “Life is too short to be lived badly.”
    Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return



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