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  • #1
    Alice Sebold
    “Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
    Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

  • #2
    Czesław Miłosz
    “Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.”
    Czeslaw Milosz

  • #3
    Colum McCann
    “The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.”
    Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin

  • #4
    Alfred Hitchcock
    “Puns are the highest form of literature.”
    Alfred Hitchcock

  • #5
    E. Nesbit
    “There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read—unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they are not the same thing, as you will see if you think the matter over.”
    E. Nesbit, The Magic World

  • #6
    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

  • #7
    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

  • #8
    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

  • #9
    Guillaume Apollinaire
    “How slow life is, how violent hope is.”
    Guillaume Apollinaire

  • #10
    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
    “Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.”
    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  • #11
    Temple Grandin
    “I am different, not less.”
    Temple Grandin

  • #12
    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

  • #13
    Frederick Douglass
    “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
    Frederick Douglass

  • #14
    Mary Renault
    “One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.”
    Mary Renault, The Persian Boy

  • #15
    “It's better to be hurt by the truth than to gain satisfaction from the lies.”
    David Allan

  • #16
    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

  • #17
    Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious
    “Tell me, what is it you plan to do
    with your one wild and precious life?”
    Mary Oliver

  • #18
    D.H. Lawrence
    “We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”
    D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

  • #20
    Aisha Tyler
    “Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.”
    Aisha Tyler

  • #21
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #22
    Emmuska Orczy
    “The weariest nights, the longest days, sooner or later must perforce come to an end.”
    Baroness Emmuska Orczy

  • #23
    Elizabeth Gaskell
    “Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.”
    Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters

  • #24
    Laura Esquivel
    “Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves”
    Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate

  • #25
    Gustave Flaubert
    “Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.”
    Gustave Flaubert

  • #26
    Thomas Wolfe
    “Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.”
    Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again

  • #27
    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

  • #28
    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

  • #29
    Harvey Pekar
    “Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.”
    Harvey Pekar

  • #30
    L. Frank Baum
    “Never give up... No one knows what's going to happen next.”
    L. Frank Baum

  • #31
    Anne Enright
    “People do not change, they are merely revealed.”
    Anne Enright, The Gathering



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