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  • #1
    Arthur C. Clarke
    “I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.”
    Arthur C. Clarke

  • #2
    George R.R. Martin
    “... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #3
    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

  • #4
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    Mae West

  • #5
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
    Søren Kierkegaard

  • #6
    Ernest Hemingway
    “I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #7
    John F. Kennedy
    “The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.”
    John F. Kennedy

  • #8
    Emily Dickinson
    “Not knowing when the dawn will come
    I open every door.”
    Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

  • #9
    Edith Wharton
    “There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there’s only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there’s no reason why you shouldn’t have a fairly good time.”
    Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome and Other Short Fiction

  • #10
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Listen," I told him. "Don't be so tough so early in the morning. I'm sure you've cut plenty of people's throats. I haven't even had my coffee yet.”
    ernest hemingway, To Have and Have Not

  • #11
    Thomas A. Edison
    “We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work”
    Thomas A. Edison

  • #12
    Boris Vian
    “There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly. ”
    Boris Vian

  • #13
    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

  • #14
    Stephen Fry
    “Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
    Stephen Fry

  • #15
    Louisa May Alcott
    “I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.”
    Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

  • #16
    George R.R. Martin
    “I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.”
    George R.R. Martin

  • #17
    C.S. Lewis
    “Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #18
    Emily Dickinson
    “I dwell in possibility…”
    Emily Dickinson

  • #19
    Donna Tartt
    “but anything overtly religious filled him with a pagan alarm; and I believe that like Pliny, whom he resembled in so many respects, he secretly thought it to be a degenerate cult carried to extravagant lengths.”
    Donna Tartt, The Secret History

  • #20
    Jane Austen
    “If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.”
    Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey



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