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  • #1
    Groucho Marx
    “My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.”
    Groucho Marx

  • #2
    Douglas Coupland
    “I don't deserve a soul, yet I still have one. I know because it hurts.”
    Douglas Coupland, The Gum Thief

  • #3
    “Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.”
    Anthony G. Oettinger

  • #4
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “I hated myself for going, why couldn't I be the kind of person who stays?”
    Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

  • #5
    Groucho Marx
    “I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.”
    Groucho Marx, Groucho and Me

  • #6
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “I'm odd, I know,' he said. 'It's fear of myself that's made me odd.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Welcome to the Monkey House

  • #7
    Albert Einstein
    “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #8
    Groucho Marx
    “Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... now you tell me what you know.”
    Groucho Marx

  • #9
    Douglas Adams
    “There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

    There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”
    Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

  • #10
    John Green
    “It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”
    John Green, Paper Towns

  • #11
    Groucho Marx
    “Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.”
    Groucho Marx

  • #12
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #13
    Diana Gabaldon
    “I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem.”
    Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber

  • #14
    Neil Gaiman
    “When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel and not having to get up too early in the morning.”
    Neil Gaiman, Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions

  • #15
    Jan Neruda
    “I hear there are people who actually enjoy moving. Sounds like a disease to me - they must be unstable. Though it does have it’s poetry, I’ll allow that. When an old dwelling starts looking desolate, a mixture of regret and anxiety comes over us and we feel like we are leaving a safe harbor for the rolling sea. As for the new place, it looks on us with alien eyes, it has nothing to say to us, it is cold.”
    Jan Neruda, Prague Tales

  • #16
    Neil Gaiman
    “He wondered how it could have taken him so long to realize he cared for her, and he told her so, and she called him an idiot, and he declared that it was the finest thing that ever a man had been called.”
    Neil Gaiman, Stardust

  • #17
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince

  • #18
    Oscar Wilde
    “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

  • #19
    Neil Gaiman
    “The only ones who ever come here from your lands are the minstrels, and the lovers, and the mad. And you don't look like much of a minstrel, and you're— pardon me for saying so lad, but it's true— ordinary as cheese crumbs. So it's love if you ask me.”
    Neil Gaiman, Stardust

  • #20
    Augusten Burroughs
    “Turn off the light," she says as she walks away, creating a small woosh that smells sweet and chemical. It makes me sad because it's the smell she makes when she's leaving.”
    Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors

  • #21
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

  • #22
    Kate DiCamillo
    “There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.”
    Kate DiCamillo, Because of Winn-Dixie

  • #23
    John Fowles
    “It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live.”
    John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman

  • #24
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving. I didn't want to destroy anything or anybody. I just wanted to slip quietly out the back door, without causing any fuss or consequences, and then not stop running until I reached Greenland.”
    Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

  • #25
    Neil Gaiman
    “He shivered. His coat was thin, and it was obvious he would not get his kiss, which he found puzzling. The manly heroes of the penny dreadfuls and shilling novels never had these problems getting kissed.”
    Neil Gaiman, Stardust

  • #26
    Donald Miller
    “Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons.”
    Donald Miller, Through Painted Deserts: Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road

  • #27
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Welcome to the Monkey House

  • #28
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Welcome to the Monkey House

  • #29
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “I have been a writer since 1949. I am self-taught. I have no theories about writing that might help others. When I write, I simply become what I seemingly must become. I am six feet two and weigh nearly two hundred pounds and am badly coordinated, except when I swim. All that borrowed meat does the writing.
    In the water I am beautiful. ”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Welcome to the Monkey House

  • #30
    John Fowles
    “We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.”
    John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman



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