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  • #1
    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

  • #2
    John Dewey
    “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.”
    John Dewey

  • #3
    Zlata Filipović
    “The people must be the ones to win, not the war, because war has nothing to do with humanity. War is something inhuman.”
    Zlata Filipović

  • #4
    “My home is where my books are.”
    Ellen Thompson

  • #5
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #6
    “Ignite, my love. Ignite.”
    Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

  • #7
    William Shakespeare
    “Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
    William Shakespeare, The Tempest

  • #8
    J.K. Rowling
    “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

  • #9
    Charles Dickens
    “There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”
    Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

  • #10
    George Eliot
    “What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”
    George Eliot

  • #11
    Paula Poundstone
    “Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up ’cause they’re looking for ideas.”
    Paula Poundstone

  • #12
    Isaac Asimov
    “In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”
    Isaac Asimov

  • #13
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #14
    Tammara Webber
    “Choosing to be with you, isn't a difficult decision, Jacqueline...It's easy. Incredibly easy.”
    Tammara Webber, Easy

  • #15
    “One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”
    Stephen Hawking

  • #16
    Philip Levine
    “Some things you know all your life. They are so simple and true they must be said without elegance, meter and rhyme...they must be naked and alone, they must stand for themselves.”
    Philip Levine

  • #17
    Eva Ibbotson
    “It's true that adventures are good for people even when they are very young. Adventures can get in a person's blood even if he doesn't remember having them. ”
    Eva Ibbotson, The Secret of Platform 13

  • #18
    Philip José Farmer
    “Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.”
    Philip José Farmer

  • #19
    Colette
    “You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”
    Colette

  • #20
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    “Books are the carriers of civilization...They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.”
    Barbara W. Tuchman

  • #21
    Stephen  King
    “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
    Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

  • #22
    Marianne Moore
    “Your thorns are the best part of you.”
    Marianne Moore

  • #23
    John Steinbeck
    “I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's
    why.”
    John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

  • #24
    Charles William Eliot
    “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
    Charles W. Eliot

  • #25
    Chris Rock
    “Comedy is the blues for people who can’t sing.”
    Chris Rock

  • #26
    Walter Mosley
    “We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.”
    Walter Mosley, Blue Light

  • #27
    Lucille Clifton
    “You might as well answer the door, my child,
    the truth is furiously knocking.”
    Lucille Clifton, Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980

  • #28
    Miranda July
    “All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life—where do they put their body, hour by hour, and how do they cope inside of it.”
    Miranda July, It Chooses You

  • #29
    LeVar Burton
    “For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.”
    LeVar Burton

  • #30
    Mo Yan
    “People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature.”
    Mo Yan



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