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  • #1
    Frederick Douglass
    “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
    Frederick Douglass

  • #2
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Never laugh at live dragons.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien

  • #3
    “A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.”
    John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy

  • #4
    “Mortals cannot perceive me with the physical eye whilst in my pure form unless it is of my choosing, for it would result in fatality, which begs the question of why you are an exception.”
    Al Stone, Talisman of El

  • #5
    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    Mark Twain

  • #6
    Lord Byron
    “And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.”
    George Gordon Byron

  • #7
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #8
    Charlaine Harris
    “If there were an international butt competition, Eric would win, hands down—or cheeks up.”
    Charlaine Harris, Dead to the World

  • #9
    Orhan Pamuk
    “I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”
    Orhan Pamuk, The New Life

  • #10
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”
    Winston Churchill

  • #11
    C. JoyBell C.
    “You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever.... connections are made with the heart, not the tongue.”
    C. JoyBell C.

  • #12
    Gilda Radner
    “I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end.”
    Gilda Radner

  • #13
    Lucille Clifton
    “may you kiss
    the wind then turn from it
    certain that it will
    love your back”
    Lucille Clifton

  • #14
    O. Henry
    “Each of us, when our day's work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.”
    O. Henry

  • #15
    Alice Munro
    “The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.”
    Alice Munro, Runaway: Stories

  • #16
    Jacques Derrida
    “To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.”
    Jacques Derrida

  • #17
    Phyllis Diller
    “A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.”
    Phyllis Diller

  • #18
    A.J. Cronin
    “Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.”
    A.J. Cronin

  • #19
    Beatrix Potter
    “Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were--Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter. ”
    Beatrix Potter

  • #20
    Emily Brontë
    “I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.”
    Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

  • #21
    David Henry Hwang
    “I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.”
    David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly

  • #22
    Guy de Maupassant
    “Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.”
    Guy de Maupassant

  • #23
    “to paraphrase science writer John D. Barrow … we know they are impossible and yet we can imagine them anyway. Our brains, it turns out, are not prisoners of the world we live in; we can fly free! We can, any time we like, create the impossible.”
    Robert Krulwich

  • #24
    “We don't speak of it, or react to it. Paralyzed in a reality of uncertainty and madness,this is where we are.”
    Danielle Rohr, Water Falls Down

  • #25
    Jane Smiley
    “Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
    Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

  • #26
    Stacey Marie Brown
    “You’re fucking kidding me, right?”

    “I don’t kid about fucking.”
    Stacey Marie Brown, Darkness of Light

  • #27
    Stacey Marie Brown
    “Holy shit! Can we say unstable? Was I the only sane one around here? Well, I guess that really wasn’t setting the standard very high." -Ember, Darkness Of Light”
    Stacey Marie Brown, Darkness of Light

  • #28
    Stacey Marie Brown
    “That was some branch. Did it have a vendetta against your t-shirt?”
    “Guess so.”
    “I hope you showed it who is boss.”
    “Yeah, I peed on it.”
    Stacey Marie Brown

  • #29
    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

  • #30
    Confucius
    “Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.”
    Confucius



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