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  • #1
    “If we don't talk to the thing we are afraid of, it becomes the thing we hope to kill.”
    Kathleen Alcott, The Best American Short Stories 2019
    tags: fear

  • #2
    Peter S. Beagle
    “there never is a happy ending because nothing ever ends.”
    Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

  • #3
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #4
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #5
    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #6
    Nicolas Chamfort
    “A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
    Nicolas Chamfort

  • #7
    Benjamin Franklin Wade
    “Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
    Benjamin Franklin Wade

  • #8
    Albert Camus
    “Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
    Albert Camus

  • #9
    Laurence J. Peter
    “If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”
    Laurence J. Peter

  • #10
    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #11
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #12
    Toni Morrison
    “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
    Toni Morrison

  • #13
    Oscar Wilde
    “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #14
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    Mae West

  • #15
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    Robert Frost

  • #16
    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    Albert Camus

  • #17
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

  • #18
    Isaac Asimov
    “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
    Isaac Asimov

  • #19
    Ulysses S. Grant
    “The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.”
    Ulysses S. Grant



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