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  • #1
    “The greatest gift you can bestow upon your children is your time and undivided attention.”
    Jim Brozina, The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared

  • #2
    Walter Mosley
    “There was something about his grandfather's death, about men who love their sons . . .”
    Walter Mosley, The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey

  • #3
    “Questions are more true than answers : this is the beginning of wisdom”
    Vergere

  • #4
    Matthew Woodring Stover
    “The truth is always greater than the words we use to describe it.”
    Matthew Stover

  • #5
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #6
    Frank Zappa
    “If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #7
    Frank Zappa
    “Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #8
    Richard Price
    “Some day, my son, you are going to learn that the two greatest joys of being a man are beating the hell out of someone and getting the hell beaten out of you, good night.”
    Richard Price, I Wanderers

  • #9
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Some books leave us free and some books make us free.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #10
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #11
    Troy Denning
    “Vergere taught me to embrace my pain by surrendering to it. I made that pain a part of me--something I would never fight or deny. You have to do the same thing with your fear, Uncle Luke. Then it will have no power over you." - Jacen”
    Troy Denning, The Swarm War

  • #12
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
    Cicero

  • #13
    Coco Chanel
    “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
    Coco Chanel

  • #14
    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

  • #15
    Gloria Steinem
    “Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.”
    Gloria Steinem

  • #16
    Ray Charles
    “Dreams, if they're any good, are always a little bit crazy. ”
    Ray Charles

  • #17
    Roald Dahl
    “You seemed so far away," Miss Honey whispered, awestruck.

    "Oh, I was. I was flying past the stars on silver wings," Matilda said. "It was wonderful.”
    Roald Dahl, Matilda

  • #18
    Fernando Pessoa
    “I’ve dreamed a lot. I’m tired now from dreaming but not tired of dreaming. No one tires of dreaming, because to dream is to forget, and forgetting does not weigh on us, it is a dreamless sleep throughout which we remain awake. In dreams I have achieved everything.”
    Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

  • #19
    Akira Kurosawa
    “Man is a genius when he is dreaming.”
    Akira Kurosawa

  • #20
    Stephen  King
    “And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine that.”
    Stephen King

  • #21
    “Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.”
    W. H. Auden



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