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  • #1
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “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

  • #2
    Allen Saunders
    “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
    Allen Saunders

  • #3
    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    Bernard M. Baruch

  • #4
    Bil Keane
    “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
    Bill Keane

  • #5
    Hal Borland
    “No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”
    Hal Borland

  • #6
    Joseph Campbell
    “Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”
    Joseph Campbell

  • #7
    Anne Tyler
    “I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
    Anne Tyler

  • #8
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #9
    Kathleen Winsor
    “Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.”
    Kathleen Winsor

  • #10
    Nadine Gordimer
    “The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.”
    Nadine Gordimer

  • #11
    Ishmael Beah
    “Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them. ”
    Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

  • #12
    Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
    “Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #13
    William Blake
    “Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
    In the forests of the night,
    What immortal hand or eye
    Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”
    William Blake

  • #14
    Selma Lagerlöf
    “Nothing on earth can make up for the loss of one who has loved you.”
    Selma Lagerlöf

  • #15
    Heinrich Heine
    “Where words leave off, music begins.”
    Heinrich Heine

  • #16
    Margaret Mead
    “I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.”
    Margaret Mead

  • #17
    Be glad. Be good. Be brave.
    “Be glad. Be good. Be brave.”
    Eleanor Hodgman Porter

  • #18
    Anthony  Powell
    “I get a warm feeling among my books.”
    Anthony Powell

  • #19
    Albert Camus
    “When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.”
    Albert Camus, A Happy Death

  • #20
    William Congreve
    “Say what you will, ’tis better to be left than never to have been loved.”
    William Congreve

  • #21
    Henry Miller
    “The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.”
    Henry Miller

  • #22
    Johnny Cash
    “All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.”
    Johnny Cash

  • #23
    Irwin Shaw
    “There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”
    Irwin Shaw

  • #24
    Phyllis McGinley
    “A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.”
    Phyllis McGinley

  • #25
    Erica Jong
    “Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”
    Erica Jong

  • #26
    Karen Blixen
    “I know of a cure for everything: salt water...in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.”
    Karen Blixen

  • #27
    Edward Gorey
    “The helpful thought for which you look
    Is written somewhere in a book.”
    Edward Gorey

  • #28
    John Lennon
    “Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.”
    John Lennon

  • #29
    J.M. Barrie
    “Do you believe in fairies?...If you believe, clap your hands!”
    J.M. Barrie

  • #30
    Amy Bloom
    “You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
    Amy Bloom



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