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“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
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Mae West
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“So many books, so little time.”
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Frank Zappa
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“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
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Maya Angelou
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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
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Oscar Wilde
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“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
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Andre Gide,
Autumn Leaves
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“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
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Stephen Chbosky,
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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#7
“Never give up... No one knows what's going to happen next.”
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L. Frank Baum
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“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
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Italo Calvino,
The Uses of Literature
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#9
“The truth is, honey, I've enjoyed my life. I've had a hell of a good time.”
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Ava Gardner
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#10
“Literature is humanity talking to itself.”
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Norman Rush
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#11
“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”
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Gustav Flaubert
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#12
“Nobody said not to go.”
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Emily Hahn
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#13
“Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.”
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Ruth Reichl
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#14
“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.”
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Edith Wharton
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#15
“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”
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Colette
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#16
“Books are the carriers of civilization...They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.”
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Barbara W. Tuchman
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