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  • #1
    Louis L'Amour
    “I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime, and find nothing at the end of the waiting. I would begin here, I would make something happen.”
    Louis L'Amour, Sackett's Land

  • #2
    Louis L'Amour
    “I am somebody. I am me. And I don't need anybody to make me somebody.”
    Louis L'Amour

  • #3
    Georgette Heyer
    “No one could have called Mr. Standen quick-witted, but the possession of three sisters had considerably sharpened his instinct of self-preservation.”
    Georgette Heyer, Cotillion

  • #4
    Georgette Heyer
    “Do you forget that I am your sister?”
    “No; I’ve never been granted the opportunity to forget it.”
    Georgette Heyer, Frederica

  • #5
    Georgette Heyer
    “[...]my memory is reasonably good—unlike yours, dear sir!”
    “Mine is erratic,” he said imperturbably. “I remember only what interests me.”
    Georgette Heyer, Frederica

  • #6
    Salman Rushdie
    “What kind of idea are you? Are you the kind that compromises, does deals, accomodates itself to society, aims to find a niche, to survive; or are you the cussed, bloody-minded, ramrod-backed type of damnfool notion that would rather break than sway with the breeze? – The kind that will almost certainly, ninety-nine times out of hundred, be smashed to bits; but, the hundredth time, will change the world.”
    Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

  • #7
    Louis L'Amour
    “The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast,
    and you miss all you are traveling for.”
    Louis L'Amour

  • #8
    Louis L'Amour
    “There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning. ”
    Louis L'Amour

  • #9
    Louis L'Amour
    “Up to a point a person’s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and changes in the world about them. Then there comes a time when it lies within their grasp to shape the clay of their life into the sort of thing they wish it to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune or the quirks of fate. Everyone has the power to say, "This I am today. That I shall be tomorrow.”
    Louis L'Amour, The Walking Drum

  • #10
    Louis L'Amour
    “For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.”
    Louis L'Amour

  • #11
    Louis L'Amour
    “A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.”
    Louis L'Amour, Education of a Wandering Man: A Memoir

  • #12
    Louis L'Amour
    “Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
    Louis L'Amour

  • #13
    Louis L'Amour
    “I wonder why it is the man who pleads for mercy never gives it.”
    Louis L'Amour, The Quick and the Dead

  • #14
    Louis L'Amour
    “The way I see it, every time a man gets up in the morning he starts his life over. Sure, the bills are there to pay, and the job is there to do, but you don't have to stay in a pattern. You can always start over, saddle a fresh horse and take another trail.”
    Louis L'Amour, The Proving Trail

  • #15
    Louis L'Amour
    “A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. You have a chance to select from pretty elegant furnishings.”
    Louis L'Amour

  • #16
    Louis L'Amour
    “Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.”
    Louis L'Amour

  • #17
    Louis L'Amour
    “Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.”
    Louis L'Amour

  • #18
    Georgette Heyer
    “The society of my relatives can only be enjoyed with frequent intervals.”
    Georgette Heyer, Behold, Here's Poison

  • #19
    Georgette Heyer
    “It is now obvious to us all that he has every objection," said Randall. "You know, you had very much better withdraw, my dear aunt. I feel sure that Uncle Henry's double life is going to be exposed. My own conviction is that he has been keeping a mistress for years."
    [...]
    Mrs. Lupton flushed. "You forget yourself, Randall. I am not going to stand here and see my husband insulted by your ill-bred notions of what is funny."
    "Oh, I wasn't insulting him," said Randall. "Why shouldn't he have a mistress? I am inclined to think that in his place -as your spouse, my dear Aunt Gertrude- I should have several.”
    Georgette Heyer, Behold, Here's Poison

  • #20
    Georgette Heyer
    “In this case," said Randall unpleasantly, "it affords me purer gratification to dwell upon the thought of my dear Aunt Gertrude duped and betrayed."
    "Your aunt doesn't suffer throught it!"
    "What a pity!" said Randall.”
    Georgette Heyer, Behold, Here's Poison

  • #21
    Livy
    “The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see: and in that record you can find for yourself and your country both examples and warnings: fine things to take as models, base things, rotten through and through, to avoid.”
    Livy , The History of Rome, Books 1-5: The Early History of Rome

  • #22
    Dorothy Parker
    “I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things.”
    Dorothy Parker, Here Lies: The Collected Stories of Dorothy Parker

  • #23
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “I am too alone in the world, and yet not alone enough
    to make every moment holy.
    I am too tiny in this world, and not tiny enough
    just to lie before you like a thing,
    shrewd and secretive.
    I want my own will, and I want simply to be with my will,
    as it goes toward action;
    and in those quiet, sometimes hardly moving times,
    when something is coming near,
    I want to be with those who know secret things
    or else alone.
    I want to be a mirror for your whole body,
    and I never want to be blind, or to be too old
    to hold up your heavy and swaying picture.
    I want to unfold.
    I don’t want to stay folded anywhere,
    because where I am folded, there I am a lie.
    and I want my grasp of things to be
    true before you. I want to describe myself
    like a painting that I looked at
    closely for a long time,
    like a saying that I finally understood,
    like the pitcher I use every day,
    like the face of my mother,
    like a ship
    that carried me
    through the wildest storm of all.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

  • #24
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.”
    Madeleine L'Engle, A Circle of Quiet

  • #25
    Herman Melville
    “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
    Herman Melville

  • #26
    Henry Beston
    “Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science. It is as impossible to live without reverence as it is without joy.”
    Henry Beston, The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod

  • #27
    A.A. Milne
    “I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.”
    A.A. Milne

  • #28
    Lawrence Ferlinghetti
    “Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.”
    Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  • #29
    John Steinbeck
    “And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.”
    John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

  • #30
    Émile Zola
    “I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.”
    Emile Zola



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