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  • #1
    Winston S. Churchill
    “If you are going through hell, keep going.”
    Winston S. Churchill

  • #2
    J.M. Barrie
    “To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
    J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

  • #3
    Samuel Beckett
    “We are all born mad. Some remain so.”
    Samuel Beckett

  • #4
    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

  • #5
    Charles Bukowski
    “Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #6
    Wilkie Collins
    “My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.”
    Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

  • #7
    Jack London
    “Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club.”
    Jack London

  • #8
    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

  • #9
    Edith Wharton
    “Life is always either a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.”
    Edith Wharton

  • #10
    Niels Bohr
    “An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
    Niels Bohr

  • #11
    “You know, it's hard work to write a book. I can't tell you how many times I really get going on an idea, then my quill breaks. Or I spill ink all over my writing tunic.”
    Ellen DeGeneres, The Funny Thing Is...

  • #12
    Lewis Carroll
    “Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

  • #13
    Judith Viorst
    “Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.”
    Judith Viorst, Love and Guilt and the Meaning of Life, Etc.

  • #14
    Fran Lebowitz
    “Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
    Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

  • #15
    Bertolt Brecht
    “Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.”
    Bertolt Brecht

  • #16
    John Steinbeck
    “Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
    John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

  • #17
    Andy Warhol
    “Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.”
    Andy Warhol

  • #18
    Jules Verne
    “We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.”
    Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth

  • #19
    Jane Yolen
    “Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.”
    Jane Yolen, Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood

  • #20
    Galileo Galilei
    “I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.”
    Galileo Galilei

  • #21
    Jules Renard
    “The truly free man is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.”
    Jules Renard, The Journal of Jules Renard

  • #22
    André Breton
    “My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.”
    André Breton, What Is Surrealism?: Selected Writings

  • #23
    David Foster Wallace
    “I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.”
    David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

  • #24
    Philip K. Dick
    “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
    Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon

  • #25
    Lemony Snicket
    “If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.”
    Lemony Snicket, The Wide Window

  • #26
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #27
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #28
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #29
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

  • #30
    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    Narcotics Anonymous



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