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  • #1
    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

  • #2
    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

  • #3
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
    Arthur Conan Doyle, The Boscombe Valley Mystery - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

  • #4
    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
    “Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.”
    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  • #5
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

  • #6
    James Hilton
    “People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.”
    James Hilton, Lost Horizon

  • #7
    Geraldine Brooks
    “For to know a man's library is, in some measure, to know his mind.”
    Geraldine Brooks, March

  • #8
    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

  • #9
    Norman Rush
    “Literature is humanity talking to itself.”
    Norman Rush

  • #10
    Zadie Smith
    “You are never stronger...than when you land on the other side of despair.”
    Zadie Smith, White Teeth

  • #11
    Ivan Turgenev
    “If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”
    Ivan Turgenev

  • #12
    Louisa May Alcott
    “I like good strong words that mean something…”
    Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

  • #13
    Rose Wilder Lane
    “Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.”
    Rose Wilder Lane

  • #14
    Jane Austen
    “Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”
    Jane Austen, Emma

  • #15
    Noël Coward
    “It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”
    Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit

  • #16
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero



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