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  • #1
    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

  • #2
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #3
    Haruki Murakami
    “Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
    Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

  • #4
    Anchee Min
    “If you can't go back to your mother's womb, you'd better learn to be a good fighter.”
    Anchee Min, Red Azalea: A Memoir

  • #5
    August Strindberg
    “Life is not so idiotically mathematical that only the big eat the small; it is just as common for a bee to kill a lion or at least to drive it mad.”
    August Strindberg, Miss Julie

  • #6
    Julian Barnes
    “This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.”
    Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

  • #7
    David Foster Wallace
    “Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
    David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

  • #8
    W.E.B. Du Bois
    “The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.”
    W.E.B. Du Bois

  • #9
    Khaled Hosseini
    “But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
    Khaled Hosseini

  • #10
    Roald Amundsen
    “Adventure is just bad planning.”
    Roald Amundsen

  • #11
    Horton Foote
    “I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them...to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and don’t ask quarters.”
    Horton Foote

  • #12
    Louis Adamic
    “My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.”
    Louis Adamic

  • #13
    Eudora Welty
    “All serious daring starts from within.”
    Eudora Welty, On Writing

  • #14
    Ruth Westheimer
    “A lesson taught with humor is a lesson retained.”
    Ruth K. Westheimer

  • #15
    Charles Dickens
    “from the days when it was always summer in Eden,to these days when it is mostly winter in fallen latitudes, the world of a man has invariably gone one way Charles Darnay’s way the way of the love of a woman”
    Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

  • #16
    Benjamin Franklin
    “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
    Benjamin Franklin

  • #17
    Dan    Brown
    “Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.”
    Dan Brown, Digital Fortress

  • #18
    Herman Melville
    “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
    Herman Melville

  • #19
    Noam Chomsky
    “We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.”
    Noam Chomsky

  • #20
    James Thurber
    “Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.”
    James Thurber

  • #21
    John Steinbeck
    “He had good children and he raised them fine. All doing well -maybe except Joe...they're talking about sending him to college, but all the rest are fine.”
    John Steinbeck , East of Eden
    tags: humor

  • #22
    Ray Bradbury
    “Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't "try" to do things. You simply "must" do things.”
    Ray Bradbury

  • #23
    Julia Glass
    “When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be.”
    Julia Glass, Three Junes

  • #24
    Benjamín Prado
    “Los buenos libros son asi, capaces de resumir toda la oscuridad de la existencia en una sola gota de tinta”
    Benjamín Prado
    tags: libros

  • #25
    Oscar Wilde
    “Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

  • #26
    Sigmund Freud
    “One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
    Sigmund Freud



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