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  • #1
    Margaret Atwood
    “War is what happens when language fails.”
    Margaret Atwood

  • #2
    Steve Jobs
    “Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
    Steve Jobs

  • #3
    Anita Loos
    “Memory is more indelible than ink.”
    Anita Loos

  • #4
    Henry James
    “She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.”
    Henry James

  • #5
    Joseph Heller
    “Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”
    Joseph Heller, Catch-22

  • #6
    Virginia Woolf
    “Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
    Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts

  • #7
    William Faulkner
    “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
    William Faulkner

  • #8
    Daphne du Maurier
    “Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.”
    Daphne du Maurier

  • #9
    Nora Ephron
    “Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
    Nora Ephron

  • #10
    E.M. Forster
    “Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.”
    E.M. Forster

  • #11
    Alexander Pope
    “Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
    Alexander Pope

  • #12
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien

  • #13
    Raymond Carver
    “Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
    Raymond Carver

  • #14
    Art Spiegelman
    “To die, it's easy. But you have to struggle for life.”
    Art Spiegelman, Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History

  • #15
    C.S. Lewis
    “I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #16
    John W. Campbell Jr.
    “History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club.”
    John W. Campbell Jr.

  • #17
    Hans Christian Andersen
    “When the bird of the heart begins to sing, too often will reason stop up her ears.”
    Hans Christian Andersen

  • #18
    Charles M. Schulz
    “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
    Charles M. Schulz

  • #19
    Brian Jacques
    “Even the strongest and bravest must sometimes weep. It shows they have a great heart, one that can feel compassion for others.”
    Brian Jacques, Redwall

  • #20
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

  • #21
    If you don't like someone's story, write your own.
    “If you don't like someone's story, write your own.”
    Chinua Achebe

  • #22
    Amy Bloom
    “The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.”
    Amy Bloom, Away

  • #23
    Anna Akhmatova
    “If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up.”
    Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

  • #24
    Eric Carle
    “We have eyes, and we're looking at stuff all the time, all day long. And I just think that whatever our eyes touch should be beautiful, tasteful, appealing, and important.”
    Eric Carle

  • #25
    Lev Grossman
    “If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.”
    Lev Grossman, The Magicians

  • #26
    Edward Gibbon
    “We improve ourselves by victory over our self. There must be contests, and you must win.”
    Edward Gibbon

  • #27
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
    Robert Louis Stevenson

  • #28
    Giacomo Leopardi
    “The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one's own knowledge is not to overstep them.”
    Giacomo Leopardi

  • #29
    Dorothea Mackellar
    “I love a sunburnt country,
    A land of sweeping plains,
    Of ragged mountain ranges,
    Of droughts and flooding rains.
    I love her far horizons,
    I love her jewel-sea,
    Her beauty and her terror –
    The wide brown land for me!”
    Dorothea Mackellar, The Poems of Dorothea Mackellar

  • #30
    Franz Kafka
    “I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
    Franz Kafka



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