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  • #1
    Joseph Heller
    “...[A]nything worth dying for ... is certainly worth living for.”
    Joseph Heller, Catch-22

  • #2
    Colette
    “You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”
    Colette

  • #3
    Jane Austen
    “I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
    Jane Austen, Jane Austen's Letters

  • #4
    Jack Kerouac
    “[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
    Jack Kerouac, On the Road

  • #5
    L.M. Montgomery
    “Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
    L.M. Montgomery

  • #6
    Charles Bukowski
    “I wanted the whole world or nothing.”
    Charles Bukowski, Post Office

  • #7
    Dorothy Parker
    “Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #8
    “This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.”
    Sid Ziff

  • #9
    Dorothy Parker
    “What fresh hell is this?”
    Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker

  • #10
    Jane Austen
    “It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language”
    Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

  • #11
    Joseph Heller
    “He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.”
    Joseph Heller, Catch-22

  • #12
    Douglas Adams
    “The story so far:
    In the beginning the Universe was created.
    This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
    Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

  • #13
    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

  • #14
    Lord Byron
    “She walks in beauty, like the night
    Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
    And all that's best of dark and bright
    Meet in her aspect and her eyes...”
    Lord Byron

  • #15
    Oscar Wilde
    “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #16
    Oscar Wilde
    “Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #17
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #18
    Oscar Wilde
    “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
    Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

  • #19
    Nick Hornby
    “People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.”
    Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

  • #20
    Dorothy Parker
    “If I didn't care for fun and such,
    I'd probably amount to much.
    But I shall stay the way I am,
    Because I do not give a damn.”
    Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope

  • #21
    Edith Wharton
    “I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.”
    Edith Wharton

  • #22
    Edith Wharton
    “Life is always either a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.”
    Edith Wharton

  • #23
    Sarah Rees Brennan
    “Friends don't menace friends with giant terrifying swords, okay?”
    Sarah Rees Brennan, The Demon's Covenant

  • #24
    Sam Selvon
    “It was a summer night: laughter fell softly: it was the sort of night that if you wasn't making love to a woman you feel like you was the only person in the world like that”
    Samuel Selvon, The Lonely Londoners



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