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“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”
― Tom Clancy

“My daughter is seven, and some of the other second-grade parents complain that their children don't read for pleasure. When I visit their homes, the children's rooms are crammed with expensive books, but the parent's rooms are empty. Those children do not see their parents reading, as I did every day of my childhood. By contrast, when I walk into an apartment with books on the shelves, books on the bedside tables, books on the floor, and books on the toilet tank, then I know what I would see if I opened the door that says 'PRIVATE--GROWNUPS KEEP OUT': a child sprawled on the bed, reading.”
― Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

“Monsieur Haneda était le supérieur de monsieur Omochi, qui était le
supérieur de monsieur Saito, qui était le supérieur de mademoiselle Mori qui
était ma supérieure. Et moi, je n'étais la supérieure de personne.
On pourrait dire les choses autrement. J'étais aux ordres de mademoiselle
Mori, qui était aux ordres de monsieur Saito, et ainsi de suite, avec cette
précision que les ordres pouvaient, en aval, sauter les échelons hiérarchiques.
Donc, dans la compagnie Yumimoto, j'étais aux ordres de tout le monde.”
― Amélie Nothomb

“Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.”
― Anatole France

“Zwykła izba, zwykłe sprzęty: piec z okapem i fortepian, stół, patefon i kołyska, trąbka, pompka i zegarek.”
― Zbigniew Batko, Z powrotem, czyli Fatalne skutki niewłaściwych lektur

“Mądrych ludzi jest dużo, dużo mniej od absolwentów wyższych uczelni.”
― Tomek Tryzna, Miss Nobody

“Ciała mężczyzn są znacznie bardziej delikatne niż ciała kobiet, chociaż uważa się inaczej. Oni najważniejsze rzeczy mają na wierzchu, a ich serca biją bliżej skóry, nieosłonięte wypukłością piersi.”
― Marcin Szczygielski, Bierki

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron

“I read like a wolf eats.
I read myself to sleep every night.”
― Gary Paulsen

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

“Allan Emmanuelle Karlsson closed his eyes and felt perfectly convinced that he would now pass away for ever. It had been exciting, the entire journey, but nothing lasts for ever, except possibly general stupidity.”
― Jonas Jonasson, The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

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

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you're a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself.”
― e.e. cummings

“Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”
― E. E. Cummings

“you can't put the shit back in a donkey”
― Tim Atkins, 1962 - 2018

“In love with life but not living”
― Tim Atkins, 1962 - 2018

“Rzecz prosta, im mądrzejszy czytelnik, tym i książka okaże się mądrzejsza; im zaś czytelnik głupszy i bardziej jałowy, tym i książka będzie głupsza.”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Bacacay

“Consistency is the sign of a narrow mind.”
― Glen Cook

“Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.”
― Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues

“Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent.”
― Glen Cook, Shadow Games