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  • #1
    James Thurber
    “It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.”
    James Thurber

  • #2
    James Thurber
    “All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.”
    James Thurber

  • #3
    James Thurber
    “The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.”
    James Thurber

  • #4
    Margaret Atwood
    “You fit into me
    like a hook into an eye
    a fish hook
    an open eye”
    Margaret Atwood

  • #5
    Terry Pratchett
    “It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.”
    Terry Pratchett

  • #6
    Terry Pratchett
    “It's going to look pretty good, then, isn't it," said War testily, "the One Horseman and Three Pedestrians of the Apocalypse.”
    Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

  • #7
    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    Neil Gaiman, Coraline

  • #8
    Neil Gaiman
    “Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections

  • #9
    Aristotle
    “Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god.”
    Aristotle

  • #10
    Marion Zimmer Bradley
    “There is no such thing as a true tale. Truth has many faces and the truth is like to the old road to Avalon; it depends on your own will, and your own thoughts, whither the road will take you.”
    Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon

  • #11
    Patricia A. McKillip
    “The man was hit in one eye by a stone, and that eye turned inward so that it looked into his mind, and he died of what he saw there”
    Patricia A. McKillip, The Forgotten Beasts of Eld

  • #12
    Neil Gaiman
    “Touched by her fingers, the two surviving chocolate people copulate desperately, losing themselves in a melting frenzy of lust, spending the last of their brief borrowed lives in a spasm of raspberry cream and fear.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 7: Brief Lives

  • #13
    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    William W. Purkey

  • #14
    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

  • #15
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #16
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
    Madeleine L'Engle

  • #17
    Douglas Adams
    “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
    Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

  • #18
    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

  • #19
    Mark Twain
    “Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
    Mark Twain

  • #20
    Oscar Wilde
    “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

  • #21
    Homer
    “All men owe honor to the poets - honor and awe; for they are dearest to the Muse who puts upon their lips the ways of life.”
    Homer

  • #22
    Albert Einstein
    “When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.”
    Albert Einstein



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