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  • #1
    Stieg Larsson
    “Everyone has secrets. It's just a matter of finding out what they are.”
    Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

  • #2
    Alan Bradley
    “Experience has taught me that an expected answer is often better than the truth.”
    Alan Bradley, The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag

  • #3
    Conan O'Brien
    “If you work really hard, and you're kind, amazing things will happen.”
    Conan O'Brien

  • #4
    Rabindranath Tagore
    “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
    Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

  • #5
    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

  • #6
    J.D. Salinger
    “I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. ”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #7
    Yves Saint-Laurent
    “We must never confuse elegance with snobbery”
    Yves Saint Laurent

  • #8
    Steve  Martin
    “I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.”
    Steve Martin

  • #9
    Honoré de Balzac
    “Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
    Honoré de Balzac

  • #10
    William Saroyan
    “When you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”
    William Saroyan

  • #11
    Sylvia Plath
    “Now I know what loneliness is, I think. Momentary loneliness, anyway. It comes from a vague core of the self - - like a disease of the blood, dispersed throughout the body so that one cannot locate the matrix, the spot of contagion.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #12
    “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

  • #13
    Elizabeth Gaskell
    “Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.”
    Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters

  • #14
    Jonathan Franzen
    “You may be poor, but the one thing nobody can take away from you is the freedom to fuck up your life whatever way you want to.”
    Jonathan Franzen, Freedom

  • #15
    “Girls are always complaining that they can never meet a nice guy. Nice guys are everywhere. The problem isn’t that there aren't any nice guys, the problem is that all of the nice guys are ugly.”
    Carroll Bryant

  • #16
    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
    Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

  • #17
    Jane Austen
    “There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #18
    S.J. Parris
    “Because I believe God is bigger than the rules we impose on one another. I think He does not mind if we find different paths to Him.”
    S.J. Parris

  • #19
    George Eliot
    “What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”
    George Eliot

  • #20
    Patti Smith
    “Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.”
    Patti Smith, Just Kids

  • #21
    Isaac Asimov
    “In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”
    Isaac Asimov

  • #22
    Alan Bradley
    “One of the things I dread about becoming an adult is that sooner or later you begin letting sentimentality get in the way of simple logic.”
    Alan Bradley, As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust

  • #23
    Alan Bradley
    “Magic doesn’t work when you’re sad.”
    Alan Bradley, As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust

  • #24
    John O'Hara
    “I have work to do, and I am afraid not to do it.”
    John O'hara

  • #25
    Stephen Fry
    “Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
    Stephen Fry

  • #26
    Dylan Thomas
    “Poetry is not the most important thing in life... I'd much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking sweets.”
    Dylan Thomas

  • #27
    Alexander McCall Smith
    “Women are the ones who knows what's going on,' she said quietly . 'They are the ones with eyes. Have you not heard of Agatha Christie?”
    Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

  • #28
    Connie Willis
    “I learned everything I know about plot from Dame Agatha (Christie).”
    Connie Willis, The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories

  • #29
    Omar Khayyám
    “Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”
    OMAR KHAYYAM, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

  • #30
    Umberto Eco
    “To survive, you must tell stories.”
    Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before



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