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  • #1
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #2
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #3
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    Robert Frost

  • #4
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #5
    George Orwell
    “Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #6
    George Orwell
    “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
    George Orwell

  • #7
    George Orwell
    “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
    George Orwell, Animal Farm

  • #8
    George Orwell
    “The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #9
    George Orwell
    “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
    George Orwell, Animal Farm

  • #10
    George Orwell
    “Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ”
    George Orwell

  • #11
    Cormac McCarthy
    “You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
    Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

  • #12
    Cormac McCarthy
    “You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”
    Cormac McCarthy, The Road

  • #13
    Cormac McCarthy
    “Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.”
    Cormac McCarthy, The Road

  • #15
    Cormac McCarthy
    “What's the bravest thing you ever did?
    He spat in the road a bloody phlegm. Getting up this morning, he said.”
    Cormac McCarthy, The Road

  • #16
    Khaled Hosseini
    “But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
    Khaled Hosseini

  • #17
    Ian McEwan
    “A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”
    Ian McEwan, Atonement

  • #18
    Khaled Hosseini
    “For you, a thousand times over”
    Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

  • #19
    Khaled Hosseini
    “And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”
    Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

  • #20
    Khaled Hosseini
    “There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.”
    Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

  • #21
    Khaled Hosseini
    “Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.”
    Khaled Hosseini

  • #22
    Sebastian Faulks
    “I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.”
    Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong

  • #23
    Sebastian Faulks
    “This is not a war, this is a test of how far man can be degraded”
    Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong
    tags: war

  • #24
    Sebastian Faulks
    “But you must live your own life eventually. You have one chance only.”
    Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong

  • #25
    Sebastian Faulks
    “There is nothing more sir, than to love and be loved.”
    Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong

  • #26
    Sebastian Faulks
    “I don’t know your life history, but I think children need to believe in powers outside themselves. That’s why they read books about witches and wizards and God knows what. There is a human need for that which childhood normally exhausts. But if a child’s world is broken up by too much reality, that need goes underground.”
    Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong



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