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“Dream as if you will live forever; Live as if you will die today.”
― James Dean

“Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even 'lame' is kind of lame. Saying 'You're lame' is like saying 'You walk with a limp.' Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he's done all right for himself.”
― John Green

“There are two kinds of folks who sit around thinking about how to kill people: psychopaths and mystery writers.”
― Richard Castle

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Sanity is a madness put to good uses.”
― George Santayana , The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings

“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
― Henry Miller, The Books in My Life

“Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
― Mark Twain

“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”
― William Blake

“The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.”
― William Blake

“To generalize is to be an idiot.”
― William Blake

“I was angry with my friend:
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe;
I told it not, my wrath did grow.

And I water'd it in fears,
Night & morning with my tears;
And I sunnéd it with smiles
And with soft deceitful wiles.

And it grew both day and night,
Till it bore an apple bright;
And my foe beheld it shine,
And he knew that it was mine,

And into my garden stole,
When the night had veil'd the pole:
In the morning glad I see
My foe outstretch'd beneath the tree.”
― William Blake, Songs of Experience

“The most sublime act is to set another before you.”
― William Blake, Proverbs of Hell

“Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.”
― William Blake

“I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia

“Vikings don't have faults, they have clubs.”
― Tara Brown

“The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.”
― Alice Munro, Runaway: Stories