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  • #1
    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    Mark Twain

  • #2
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

  • #3
    George Burns
    “You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.”
    George Burns

  • #4
    Charlotte Brontë
    “I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
    Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

  • #5
    Arthur Miller
    “Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.”
    Arthur Miller

  • #6
    Shelby Foote
    “A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.”
    Shelby Foote

  • #7
    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

  • #8
    Daphne du Maurier
    “I wish I was a woman of about thirty-six dressed in black satin with a string of pearls.”
    Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

  • #9
    Jules Verne
    “We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.”
    Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth

  • #10
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    Robert Frost

  • #11
    Robert Fulghum
    “We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”
    Robert Fulghum, True Love

  • #12
    Franz Kafka
    “Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #13
    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

  • #14
    Glen Cook
    “Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.”
    Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues

  • #15
    George Burns
    “If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age. ”
    George Burns

  • #16
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

  • #17
    Augustine of Hippo
    “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
    St. Augustine

  • #18
    C.S. Lewis
    “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #19
    John Green
    “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #20
    Victor Hugo
    “He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
    Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

  • #21
    Khaled Hosseini
    “But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
    Khaled Hosseini

  • #22
    Daphne du Maurier
    “But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
    Daphne du Maurier

  • #23
    Maurice Sendak
    “A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”
    Maurice Sendak

  • #24
    Neil Gaiman
    “I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #25
    Paul Auster
    “Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
    Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

  • #26
    Jamaica Kincaid
    “There's something to be said about a slightly plump person—you have just enough of too much.”
    Jamaica Kincaid

  • #27
    Raymond Carver
    “Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
    Raymond Carver

  • #28
    Patricia Highsmith
    “My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”
    Patricia Highsmith

  • #29
    Madame de Sévigné
    “The human heart will never wrinkle.”
    Madame de Sévigné, Letters of Madame de Sévigné to her Daughter and her Friends, Volume 2



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