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“Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Whoever wants to live and enjoys his life today must not be like you and me. Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours”
― Hermann Hesse

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Everything will turn out right, the world is built on that.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.”
― Terry Pratchett

“Vampires are people too!”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Guilty Pleasures

“If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Narcotics Anonymous

“I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.”
― Margaret Atwood

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

“We live for books.”
― Umberto Eco

“I love the smell of book ink in the morning.”
― Umberto Eco

“To survive, you must tell stories.”
― Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”
― Neil Gaiman

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“There are no ordinary cats.”
― Colette

“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

“What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.”
― Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

“If you're not having fun, you're doing something wrong.”
― Groucho Marx

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.”
― Allen Ginsberg

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
― E.L. Doctorow