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  • #1
    Mark Twain
    “Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
    Mark Twain

  • #2
    Mark Twain
    “God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
    Mark Twain

  • #3
    Isabel Allende
    “The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”
    Isabel Allende

  • #4
    George Orwell
    “Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
    George Orwell

  • #5
    Carrie Hope Fletcher
    “Don't ditch your childhood dreams just because you dreamt them up as a child.”
    Carrie Hope Fletcher

  • #6
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

  • #7
    Honoré de Balzac
    “Reading brings us unknown friends”
    Honore de Balzac

  • #8
    Frank Herbert
    “There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
    Frank Herbert

  • #9
    Kate Mosse
    “We are who we are, be­cause of those we choose to love and be­cause of those who love us.”
    Kate Mosse, The Winter Ghosts

  • #10
    William Makepeace Thackeray
    “Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.”
    William Makepeace Thackeray

  • #11
    Evelyn Waugh
    “Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.”
    Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

  • #12
    Neil Gaiman
    “Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #13
    Andrea Barrett
    “We write in response to what we read and learn; and in the end we write out of our deepest selves.”
    Andrea Barrett

  • #14
    Guy Gavriel Kay
    “There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.”
    Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana

  • #15
    Voltaire
    “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
    Voltaire

  • #16
    Patrick Ness
    “We are the choices we make.”
    Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

  • #17
    Adeline Yen Mah
    “Please believe that one single positive dream is more important than a thousand negative realities.”
    Adeline Yen Mah, Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter

  • #18
    Agatha Christie
    “Very few of us are what we seem.”
    Agatha Christie, The Man in the Mist

  • #19
    Emily Dickinson
    “Forever is composed of nows.”
    Emily Dickinson

  • #20
    Colleen Hoover
    “Don't take life too seriously. Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit. Laugh at it.”
    Colleen Hoover, Slammed

  • #21
    Tamora Pierce
    “Every now and then I like to do as I'm told, just to confuse people.”
    Tamora Pierce, Melting Stones

  • #22
    Edna O'Brien
    “In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.”
    Edna O'Brien, A Fanatic Heart: Selected Stories

  • #23
    Arthur C. Clarke
    “I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.”
    Arthur C. Clarke

  • #24
    James  Burke
    “When you read a book, you hold another's mind in your hands.”
    James Burke

  • #25
    Sarah Vowell
    “We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid of my flaws and there would be no one left.”
    Sarah Vowell, Take the Cannoli

  • #26
    Jamaica Kincaid
    “Friendship is a simple thing, and yet complicated; friendship is on the surface, something natural, something taken for granted, and yet underneath one could find worlds.”
    Jamaica Kincaid

  • #27
    Arthur Miller
    “Everything we are is at every moment alive in us.”
    Arthur Miller

  • #28
    Edward Abbey
    “Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.”
    Edward Abbey

  • #29
    Chelsea Handler
    “Laugh loudly, laugh often, and most important, laugh at yourself.”
    Chelsea Handler, Lies That Chelsea Handler Told Me

  • #30
    Jean Genet
    “Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.”
    Jean Genet



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