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  • #1
    Terry Pratchett
    “Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
    Terry Pratchett

  • #2
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    Mark Twain

  • #3
    Tom Robbins
    “If this typewriter can't do it, then fuck it, it can't be done.”
    Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

  • #4
    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “The same boys who got detention in elementary school for beating the crap out of people are now rewarded for it. They call it football.”
    Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

  • #5
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #6
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #7
    Douglas Adams
    “The story so far:
    In the beginning the Universe was created.
    This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
    Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

  • #8
    Terry Pratchett
    “Escapism isn't good or bad of itself. What is important is what you are escaping from and where you are escaping to. I write from experience, since in my case I escaped to the idea that books could be really enjoyable, an aspect of reading that teachers had not hitherto suggested.”
    Terry Pratchett, A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-Fiction

  • #9
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    “Endure pain, find joy, and make your own meaning, because the universe certainly isn't going to supply it.”
    Lois McMaster Bujold, Cordelia's Honor

  • #10
    Maria Semple
    “My heart started racing, not the bad kind of heart racing, like I'm going to die. But the good kind of heart racing, like, Hello, can I help you with something? If not, please step aside because I'm about to kick the shit out of life.”
    Maria Semple, Where'd You Go, Bernadette

  • #11
    Baratunde R. Thurston
    “As I've reflected back on both, I realize that my neighborhood was just like The Wire. We had the drug dealing, the police brutality, the murders. Well, it was /almost/ a perfect match. We had everything The Wire had except for universal critical acclaim and the undying love of white people who saw it.”
    Baratunde R. Thurston, How to Be Black

  • #12
    Neil Gaiman
    “Rule number one: Don't fuck with librarians.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #13
    Ryan North
    “You might think that people in the business of selling books would be against places where you can read books for free, but here is a secret: libraries are awesome, librarians are even *more* awesome, and both are among the greatest things civilization has given us. *No apologies; it's true.*”
    Ryan North, The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Vol. 5: Like I'm the Only Squirrel in the World

  • #14
    Ryan North
    “MY METAL ARMS ARE IMMUNE TO THE FATIGUES THAT PLAGUE MORTAL LIMBS; THOUGH I CONFESS THAT AGAINST THE ENNUI THAT PLAGUES MORTAL MINDS I FIND NO SUCH IMMUNITY" --Brain Drain”
    Ryan North, The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Vol. 5: Like I'm the Only Squirrel in the World

  • #15
    Seanan McGuire
    “If you want to help her, you need to help yourself first. No one serves their friends by grinding themselves into dust on the altar of compassion.”
    Seanan McGuire, In an Absent Dream

  • #16
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.”
    Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness



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