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  • #1
    Anaïs Nin
    “Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
    Anaïs Nin, Incest: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1932-1934

  • #2
    Cesare Pavese
    “Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.”
    Cesare Pavese, Il mestiere di vivere: Diario 1935-1950

  • #3
    Dr. Seuss
    “I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that is funny.”
    Dr. Seuss, The Cat in the Hat
    tags: fun

  • #4
    Peter De Vries
    “Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.”
    Peter De Vries

  • #5
    Agatha Christie
    “The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.”
    Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express

  • #6
    Agatha Christie
    “Poirot," I said. "I have been thinking."
    "An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.”
    Agatha Christie, Peril at End House

  • #7
    Agatha Christie
    “Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.”
    Agatha Christie, The Labours of Hercules

  • #8
    Agatha Christie
    “I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
    Agatha Christie

  • #9
    Agatha Christie
    “It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ”
    Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

  • #10
    Samuel Johnson
    “Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.”
    Samuel Johnson, Works of Samuel Johnson. Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, A Grammar of the English Tongue, Preface to Shakespeare, Lives of the English Poets & more [improved 11/20/2010]

  • #11
    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

  • #12
    Diane Duane
    “Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”
    Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard

  • #13
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #14
    Doris Lessing
    “Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
    Doris Lessing

  • #15
    Napoleon Hill
    “The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.”
    Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

  • #16
    Stephen  King
    “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
    Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

  • #17
    Steve Jobs
    “Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.”
    Steve Jobs

  • #18
    Oscar Wilde
    “After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.”
    Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

  • #19
    Alan             Moore
    “My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.”
    Alan Moore

  • #20
    William Arthur Ward
    “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
    William Arthur Ward

  • #21
    Mark Twain
    “Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
    Mark Twain

  • #22
    Stefan Zweig
    “Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs, fill your eyes, be awake, wider awake, vividly awake in every sense and every pore.”
    Stefan Zweig, The Post-Office Girl

  • #23
    Rebecca West
    “I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.”
    Rebecca West

  • #24
    E.B. White
    “It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.”
    E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

  • #25
    E.B. White
    “I’ve got a new friend, all right. But what a gamble friendship is! Charlotte is fierce, brutal, scheming, bloodthirsty—everything I don’t like. How can I learn to like her, even though she is pretty and, of course, clever?”
    E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web



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