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  • #1
    Constantinos P. Cavafy
    “When you set sail for Ithaca,
    wish for the road to be long,
    full of adventures, full of knowledge.”
    C.P. Cavafy

  • #2
    Bobbie Ann Mason
    “One day I was counting the cats and I absent-mindedly counted myself.”
    Bobbie Ann Mason, Shiloh and Other Stories

  • #3
    Nellie Bly
    “Energy rightly applied and directed will accomplish anything.”
    Nellie Bly

  • #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
    Gary Snyder
    “O, ah! The awareness of emptiness brings forth a heart of compassion!”
    Gary Snyder

  • #6
    Eoin Colfer
    “It's like learning to ride a unicorn. You never forget.”
    Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl

  • #7
    Nora Ephron
    “What are you going to do? Everything, is my guess. It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications.”
    Nora Ephron

  • #8
    Dr. Seuss
    “Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #9
    André Brink
    “In love, no question is ever preposterous.”
    Andre Brink, Before I Forget

  • #10
    Djuna Barnes
    “A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.”
    Djuna Barnes

  • #11
    Mark Twain
    “When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
    Mark Twain

  • #12
    Dan    Brown
    “Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.”
    Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

  • #13
    Hilary Mantel
    “It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.”
    Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

  • #14
    David Nicholls
    “This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”
    David Nicholls, One Day

  • #15
    J.D. Salinger
    “I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. ”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #16
    Helen Thomas
    “I don't think a tough question is disrespectful.”
    Helen Thomas

  • #17
    Sarah Waters
    “The best thing to do was to brazen it out, throw your head back, walk with a swagger...”
    Sarah Waters

  • #18
    Alexandre Dumas
    “All human wisdom is contained in these two words - Wait and Hope”
    Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

  • #19
    Michael Palin
    “You can't get a suit of armour and a rubber chicken just like that. You have to plan ahead.”
    Michael Palin

  • #20
    Michael Palin
    “Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life”
    Michael Palin

  • #21
    Michael Palin
    “I am very cautious of people who are absolutely right, especially when they are vehemently so.”
    Michael Palin, Diaries 1969-1979: The Python Years

  • #22
    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

  • #23
    Dr. Seuss
    “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #24
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #25
    A.A. Milne
    “You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
    A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

  • #26
    Diana Nyad
    “I wanted to teach myself some life lessons at the age of 60 and one of them was that you don’t give up.”
    Diana Nyad

  • #27
    Guillaume Apollinaire
    “How slow life is, how violent hope is.”
    Guillaume Apollinaire

  • #28
    Ray Bradbury
    “There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.”
    Ray Bradbury

  • #29
    Stephen  King
    “The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
    Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

  • #30
    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



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