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  • #1
    Marjane Satrapi
    “Life is too short to be lived badly.”
    Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

  • #2
    John Milton
    “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
    John Milton, Paradise Lost

  • #3
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.”
    Simone de Beauvoir , La vieillesse

  • #4
    Ruth Reichl
    “Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.”
    Ruth Reichl

  • #5
    Derek Walcott
    “Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.”
    Derek Walcott

  • #6
    Colette
    “You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”
    Colette

  • #7
    Russell Hoban
    “What I am
    is tired of jam.”
    Russell Hoban

  • #8
    Chris Rock
    “Comedy is the blues for people who can’t sing.”
    Chris Rock

  • #9
    Kate Chopin
    “She wanted something to happen - something, anything: she did not know what.”
    Kate Chopin

  • #10
    Joy Williams
    “She wanted to be extraordinary, to possess a savage glitter.”
    Joy Williams

  • #11
    Émile Zola
    “If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”
    Émile Zola

  • #12
    LeVar Burton
    “For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.”
    LeVar Burton

  • #13
    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”
    Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

  • #14
    Mo Yan
    “People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature.”
    Mo Yan

  • #15
    Richard Matheson
    “That which you believe becomes your world.”
    Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come

  • #16
    W.H. Auden
    “I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you
    Till China and Africa meet,
    And the river jumps over the mountain
    And the salmon sing in the street”
    W.H. Auden

  • #17
    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    “Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. ”
    Edna St. Vincent Millay

  • #18
    W.E.B. Du Bois
    “Believe in life! Always human beings will progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.”
    W.E.B. Du Bois

  • #19
    Victor Hugo
    “To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.”
    Victor Hugo

  • #20
    Ralph Ellison
    “When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.”
    Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

  • #21
    Dr. Seuss
    “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
    Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!

  • #22
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.”
    Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

  • #23
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Spring is the time of plans and projects.”
    Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

  • #24
    Louis L'Amour
    “Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”
    Louis L'Amour, Matagorda/The First Fast Draw: Two Novels in One Volume

  • #25
    Russell Banks
    “Go, my book, and help destroy the world as it is.”
    Russell Banks, Continental Drift

  • #26
    Haruki Murakami
    “What happens when people open their hearts?"
    "They get better.”
    Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

  • #27
    Émile Zola
    “I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.”
    Emile Zola

  • #28
    Ernest Hemingway
    “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #29
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #30
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.”
    Vladimir Nabokov



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