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  • #1
    Stephen  King
    “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
    Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

  • #2
    H.G. Wells
    “To sit among all those unknown things before a puzzle like that is hopeless. That way lies monomania. Face this world. Learn its ways, watch it, be careful of too hasty guesses at its meaning. In the end you will find clues to it all.”
    H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

  • #3
    I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.
    “I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #4
    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

  • #5
    Anaïs Nin
    “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
    Anais Nin

  • #6
    J.D. Salinger
    “All morons hate it when you call them a moron.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #7
    J.D. Salinger
    “If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late?”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #8
    Charles Darwin
    “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
    Charles Darwin, The Life & Letters of Charles Darwin

  • #9
    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

  • #10
    Plato
    “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
    Plato

  • #11
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #12
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
    Cicero

  • #13
    Albert Einstein
    “Never memorize something that you can look up.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #14
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #15
    Jeph Jacques
    “You ought to expect better of people. It encourages you to be a better person yourself.”
    Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, Vol. 1

  • #16
    Stephen  King
    “Go then, there are other worlds than these.”
    Stephen King, The Gunslinger

  • #17
    Shirley Jackson
    “A pretty sight, a lady with a book.”
    Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle



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