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  • #1
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #2
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #3
    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

  • #4
    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

  • #5
    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

  • #6
    Mikhail Bulgakov
    “But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if
    evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows
    disappeared? After all, shadows are cast by things and people. Here is the
    shadow of my sword. But shadows also come from trees and living beings.
    Do you want to strip the earth of all trees and living things just because
    of your fantasy of enjoying naked light? You're stupid.”
    Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

  • #7
    Mikhail Bulgakov
    “Everything will turn out right, the world is built on that.”
    Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

  • #8
    Mikhail Bulgakov
    “You should never ask anyone for anything. Never- and especially from those who are more powerful than yourself.”
    Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

  • #9
    Mikhail Bulgakov
    “manuscripts don't burn" - "(рукописи не горят)”
    Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

  • #10
    Mikhail Bulgakov
    “No ID, no person”
    Mikhail Bulgakov

  • #11
    Mikhail Bulgakov
    “Свежесть бывает только одна - первая, она же и последная.”
    Bulgakov M.A., Мастер и Маргарита. Белая гвардия

  • #12
    Karen Blixen
    “I know of a cure for everything: salt water...in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.”
    Karen Blixen

  • #13
    John Green
    “What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #14
    John Green
    “As the tide washed in, the Dutch Tulip Man faced the Ocean:
    "Conjoiner rejoinder poisoner concealer revelator. Look at it, rising up and rising down, taking everything with it."

    "What’s that?" Anna asked.

    "Water," the Dutchman said. "Well, and time.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #15
    Roberto Bolaño
    “Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.”
    Roberto Bolaño, 2666

  • #16
    Voltaire
    “Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies."
    (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)”
    Voltaire

  • #17
    Scott Lynch
    “There’s no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated.”
    Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora



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