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  • #1
    Jack Gilbert
    “Everyone forgets Icarus also flew.”
    Jack Gilbert, Refusing Heaven: Poems

  • #2
    N. Scott Momaday
    “A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things.”
    N. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain

  • #3
    José Martí
    “Day and night I always dream with open eyes.”
    Jose Marti

  • #4
    Ralph Ellison
    “When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.”
    Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

  • #5
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”
    Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

  • #6
    William Shakespeare
    “Doubt thou the stars are fire;
    Doubt that the sun doth move;
    Doubt truth to be a liar;
    But never doubt I love.”
    William Shakespeare, Hamlet

  • #7
    Kenneth Grahame
    “Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.”
    Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

  • #8
    John Updike
    “Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. ”
    John Updike

  • #9
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Spring is the time of plans and projects.”
    Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

  • #10
    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

  • #11
    Julia Glass
    “When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be.”
    Julia Glass, Three Junes

  • #12
    Lawrence Ferlinghetti
    “Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.”
    Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  • #13
    Tennessee Williams
    “If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.”
    Tennessee Williams, Conversations With Tennessee Williams

  • #14
    Ai Qing
    “Without movement there is no Life...We should use our energy to the fullest.”
    Ai Qing

  • #15
    Russell Banks
    “Go, my book, and help destroy the world as it is.”
    Russell Banks, Continental Drift

  • #16
    Ernest Hemingway
    “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #17
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #18
    Ralph Ellison
    “The world is a possibility if only you'll discover it.”
    Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

  • #19
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.”
    Vladimir Nabokov

  • #20
    Doris Lessing
    “Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.”
    Doris Lessing

  • #21
    H.P. Lovecraft
    “The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.”
    H. P. Lovecraft

  • #22
    Henry David Thoreau
    “Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.”
    Henry David Thoreau

  • #23
    Charlotte Brontë
    “Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.”
    Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

  • #24
    Orhan Pamuk
    “Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.”
    Orhan Pamuk, Snow

  • #25
    Harper Lee
    “Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #26
    Henry James
    “She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.”
    Henry James

  • #27
    Joseph Heller
    “Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”
    Joseph Heller, Catch-22

  • #28
    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    “I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.”
    Edna St. Vincent Millay

  • #29
    Margaret Mitchell
    “Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.”
    Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

  • #30
    Virginia Woolf
    “Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
    Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts



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