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  • #1
    Octavia E. Butler
    “I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.”
    Octavia E. Butler

  • #2
    Anne Lamott
    “For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.”
    Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

  • #3
    Elizabeth  Taylor
    “The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.”
    Elizabeth Taylor

  • #4
    Laura Hillenbrand
    “His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.”
    Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit: An American Legend

  • #5
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Never own more than you can carry in both hands at a dead run.”
    Robert A. Heinlein

  • #6
    Dr. Seuss
    “When you think things are bad,
    when you feel sour and blue,
    when you start to get mad...
    you should do what I do!
    Just tell yourself, Duckie,
    you're really quite lucky!
    Some people are much more...
    oh, ever so much more...
    oh, muchly much-much more
    unlucky than you!”
    Dr. Seuss, Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?

  • #7
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #8
    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    Bernard M. Baruch

  • #9
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #10
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    Mae West

  • #11
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

  • #12
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #13
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

  • #14
    Keri Hulme
    “You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read...”
    Keri Hulme, The Bone People

  • #15
    Thurgood Marshall
    “In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.”
    Thurgood Marshall

  • #16
    G.K. Chesterton
    “There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #17
    Jim C. Hines
    “1. Bullying is not okay. Period.

    2. Freedom of religion does not give you the right to physically or verbally assault people.

    3. If your sincerely-held religious beliefs require you to bully children, then your beliefs are fucked up.”
    Jim C. Hines

  • #18
    Molly Ivins
    “I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag.”
    Molly Ivins

  • #19
    Sanober  Khan
    “it was the kind of moon
    that I would want to
    send back to my ancestors
    and gift to my descendants

    so they know that I too,
    have been bruised...by beauty.”
    Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence

  • #20
    Toba Beta
    “You are the fairy tale told by your ancestors.”
    Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

  • #21
    John O'Donohue
    “When you steal a people's language, you leave their soul bewildered.”
    John O'Donohue

  • #22
    “Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the very cognitive, representational flexibility necessary to become humans.”
    Daniel J. Levitin, This Is Your Brain on Music

  • #23
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Life is short, but the years are long.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, Methuselah's Children



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