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  • #1
    Lion Feuchtwanger
    “The word and the image mutually excluded each other. Joseph was a literary man to his very marrow; he put faith in the invisible Word; it was the most miraculous thing in all the world; though without form it had more power than anything endowed with form”
    Lion Feuchtwanger, Josephus

  • #2
    Ian Sansom
    “They were always there for you, books, like a small pet dog that doesn't die.”
    Ian sansom, The Case of the Missing Books

  • #3
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”
    Nathaniel Hawthorne

  • #4
    Mordecai Richler
    “I don't hold with shamans, witch doctors, or psychiatrists. Shakespeare, Tolstoy, or even Dickens, understood more about the human condition than ever occurred to any of you. You overrated bunch of charlatans deal with the grammar of human problems, and the writers I've mentioned with the essence.”
    Mordecai Richler, Barney's Version

  • #5
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
    Kurt Vonnegut

  • #6
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

  • #7
    Samuel Johnson
    “The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.”
    Samuel Johnson

  • #8
    James Boswell
    “He had no settled plan of life, nor looked forward at all, but merely lived from day to day. Yet he read a great deal in a desultory manner, without any scheme of study, as chance threw books in his way, and inclination directed him through them.”
    James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson

  • #10
    Samuel Johnson
    “Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.”
    Samuel Johnson, The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 3

  • #11
    Marcel Proust
    “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
    Marcel Proust

  • #12
    David Foster Wallace
    “The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”
    David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

  • #13
    David Foster Wallace
    “The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.”
    David Foster Wallace, This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

  • #14
    David Foster Wallace
    “There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says "Morning, boys. How's the water?" And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes "What the hell is water?”
    David Foster Wallace, This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

  • #15
    David Foster Wallace
    “What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human [...] is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naïve and goo-prone and generally pathetic.”
    David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

  • #16
    David Foster Wallace
    “We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we've never even met?”
    David Foster Wallace

  • #17
    David Foster Wallace
    “An ad that pretends to be art is -- at absolute best -- like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you. This is dishonest, but what's sinister is the cumulative effect that such dishonesty has on us: since it offers a perfect facsimile or simulacrum of goodwill without goodwill's real spirit, it messes with our heads and eventually starts upping our defenses even in cases of genuine smiles and real art and true goodwill. It makes us feel confused and lonely and impotent and angry and scared. It causes despair.”
    David Foster Wallace

  • #18
    David Foster Wallace
    “[...] almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it. Destiny has no beeper; destiny always leans trenchcoated out of an alley with some sort of 'psst' that you usually can't even hear because you're in such a rush to or from something important you've tried to engineer.”
    David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

  • #19
    Jonathan Lethem
    “Matthew and Lucinda felt at the exact edge of their lives, feeling them close, closer, as near at hand as yet elusive as the wind that whistled in their hair: the true complete lives in which they would at last drown, the oceanic voyage into their thirties and beyond, through which their inchoate yearnings would either be soothed or disappointed, or both.”
    Jonathan Lethem

  • #20
    Michael Paterniti
    “Take your hallowed halls of Congress or the littered floor of the Stock Exchange, America is built on its pancake houses!”
    Michael Paterniti, Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain

  • #21
    Albert Schweitzer
    “Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.”
    Albert Schweitzer

  • #22
    Alice Munro
    “A story is not like a road to follow … it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where you like and discovering how the room and corridors relate to each other, how the world outside is altered by being viewed from these windows. And you, the visitor, the reader, are altered as well by being in this enclosed space, whether it is ample and easy or full of crooked turns, or sparsely or opulently furnished. You can go back again and again, and the house, the story, always contains more than you saw the last time. It also has a sturdy sense of itself of being built out of its own necessity, not just to shelter or beguile you.”
    Alice Munro, Selected Stories

  • #23
    David  Wong
    “And watch out for Molly. See if she does anything unusual. There’s something I don’t trust about the way she exploded and then came back from the dead like that.”
    David Wong, John Dies at the End

  • #24
    Christopher Paolini
    “Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?”
    Christopher Paolini

  • #25
    Leonard Woolf
    “Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.”
    Leonard Woolf

  • #26
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero, Yasalar Üzerine

  • #27
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:
    Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;
    Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected;
    Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it;
    Refusing to set aside trivial preferences;
    Neglecting development and refinement of the mind;
    Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #28
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #29
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “In times of war, the law falls silent.

    Silent enim leges inter arma
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #30
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #31
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “Dum Spiro, spero”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero



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