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  • #1
    Andy Weir
    “Yes, of course duct tape works in a near-vacuum. Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshiped.”
    Andy Weir, The Martian

  • #2
    Matt Fraction
    “Boomerang arrow, Kate -- It comes back to you in the end. Boomerang. Respect it.”
    Matt Fraction (Author), Hawkeye, Volume 1: My Life as a Weapon

  • #3
    Gertrude Stein
    “One must dare to be happy. ”
    Gertrude Stein

  • #4
    Laura Ingalls Wilder
    “I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.”
    Laura Ingalls Wilder

  • #5
    Bertolt Brecht
    “Art is not a mirror held up to reality
    but a hammer with which to shape it.”
    Bertolt Brecht

  • #6
    Matt Groening
    “I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.”
    Matt Groening

  • #7
    Goldy Moldavsky
    “They just want to be part of the moment. A moment that's much larger than them, and even larger than us.”
    Goldy Moldavsky, Kill the Boy Band

  • #8
    Richard Matheson
    “Heaven would never be heaven without you.”
    Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come

  • #9
    J.R. Ward
    “You so need to lighten up about that potato-launcher incident," Butch said.
    Phury rolled his eyes and eased back in the banquette. "You broke my window."
    "Of course we did. V and I were aiming for it."
    "Twice."
    "Thus proving that he and I are outstanding marksmen.”
    J.R. Ward, Lover Unbound

  • #10
    Lemony Snicket
    “Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
    Lemony Snicket

  • #11
    Dee Brown
    “Nothing lives long
    Only the earth and mountains”
    Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

  • #12
    Erik Larson
    “I was born with the devil in me,' [Holmes] wrote. 'I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing.”
    Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City

  • #13
    Katie MacAlister
    “Do you have some sort of anti-derangement medication? If so, you might wish to take it.”
    Katie MacAlister, Dragon Fall

  • #14
    Emily F. Murphy
    “Whenever I don’t know whether to fight or not, I fight.”
    Emily Murphy

  • #15
    Ben Okri
    “The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”
    Ben Okri

  • #16
    Alice Hoffman
    “Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.”
    Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

  • #17
    John Updike
    “It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.”
    John Updike, My Father's Tears and Other Stories

  • #18
    Lois Lowry
    “Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none”
    Lois Lowry, Gathering Blue

  • #19
    James  Patterson
    “Basically, I have two speeds.... Hostile or smart-aleck. Your choice.”
    James Patterson, Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

  • #20
    John Oliver
    “Democracy is like a tamborine - not everyone can be trusted with it.”
    John Oliver

  • #21
    Corrie ten Boom
    “Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.”
    Corrie Ten Boom

  • #22
    Annie Dillard
    “She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”
    Annie Dillard, The Living

  • #23
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.”
    Søren Kierkegaard, The Journals of Kierkegaard

  • #24
    George Carlin
    “May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.”
    George Carlin

  • #25
    Jenny  Lawson
    “Brains are like toddlers. They are wonderful and should be treasured, but that doesn’t mean you should trust them to take care of you in an avalanche or process serotonin effectively.”
    Jenny Lawson, Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things

  • #26
    Robin  Williams
    “You're only given a spark of madness. You musn't lose it.”
    Robin Williams

  • #27
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.

    So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

  • #28
    Nicolas Chamfort
    “The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”
    Nicolas Chamfort

  • #29
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #30
    June Ahern
    “How hurtful it can be to deny one's true self and live a life of lies just to appease others.”
    June Ahern



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