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  • #1
    Henry James
    “Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
    Henry James

  • #2
    Pablo Picasso
    “Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
    Pablo Picasso

  • #3
    James Baldwin
    “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
    James Baldwin

  • #4
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
    Søren Kierkegaard

  • #5
    “We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.”
    Louise Erdrich, The Bingo Palace

  • #6
    Shelby Foote
    “A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.”
    Shelby Foote

  • #7
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
    Robert A. Heinlein

  • #8
    Jimi Hendrix
    “I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”
    Jimi Hendrix, The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold as Love

  • #9
    E.E. Cummings
    “Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you're a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself.”
    e.e. cummings

  • #10
    Aphra Behn
    “That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.”
    Aphra Behn, The Lucky Chance

  • #11
    Charles Dickens
    “It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.”
    Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

  • #12
    Marcel Proust
    “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
    Marcel Proust

  • #13
    Woodrow Wilson
    “I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow.”
    Woodrow Wilson

  • #14
    Edith Sitwell
    “Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.”
    Edith Sitwell

  • #15
    Samuel Butler
    “Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.”
    Samuel Butler

  • #16
    Mortimer J. Adler
    “In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
    Mortimer J. Adler

  • #17
    L.M. Montgomery
    “Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
    L.M. Montgomery

  • #18
    Alfred Tennyson
    “Hope
    Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
    Whispering 'it will be happier'...”
    Alfred Lord Tennyson

  • #19
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Never laugh at live dragons.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien

  • #20
    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

  • #21
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

  • #22
    Steve  Martin
    “Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.”
    Steve Martin

  • #23
    A.A. Milne
    “Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
    A.A. Milne

  • #24
    Tennessee Williams
    “Time is the longest distance between two places.”
    Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

  • #25
    Milan Kundera
    “When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.”
    Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

  • #26
    Dave Barry
    “The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status, or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we all believe that we are above-average drivers.”
    Dave Barry, Dave Barry Turns 50

  • #27
    Ezra Pound
    “Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”
    Ezra Pound

  • #28
    Lloyd Alexander
    “Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
    Lloyd Alexander

  • #29
    John Ruskin
    “To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.”
    John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice

  • #30
    Fran Lebowitz
    “Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
    Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader



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