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  • #1
    Lewis Carroll
    “One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.”
    Lewis Carroll

  • #2
    Charles Bukowski
    “Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #3
    “There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
    Linda Grayson

  • #4
    Stieg Larsson
    “Keep in mind that I'm crazy, won't you?”
    Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

  • #5
    Nora Ephron
    “Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
    Nora Ephron

  • #6
    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

  • #7
    Howard Thurman
    “Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or unremembered peace.”
    Howard Thurman, Meditations of the Heart

  • #8
    Umberto Eco
    “Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...”
    Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

  • #9
    Wilkie Collins
    “The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!”
    Wilkie Collins, Armadale

  • #10
    Roald Amundsen
    “Adventure is just bad planning.”
    Roald Amundsen

  • #11
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
    Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

  • #12
    Alice Hoffman
    “Books may well be the only true magic.”
    Alice Hoffman

  • #13
    Daniel Defoe
    “It is never too late to be wise.”
    Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

  • #14
    Hilary Mantel
    “Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.”
    Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

  • #15
    Gary Paulsen
    “If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books.
    The book needs you.”
    Gary Paulsen, The Winter Room

  • #16
    Benjamin Franklin
    “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
    Benjamin Franklin

  • #17
    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

  • #18
    William Strunk Jr.
    “Omit needless words.”
    William Strunk Jr., The Elements of Style; How to Speak and Write Correctly

  • #19
    Margaret Walker
    “When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.”
    Margaret Walker

  • #20
    Jack London
    “I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.”
    Jack London

  • #21
    Tim O'Brien
    “They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.”
    Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

  • #22
    Criss Jami
    “To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.”
    Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

  • #23
    John Guare
    “It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.”
    John Guare, Landscape of the Body

  • #24
    Demetri Martin
    “Yes" actually means "No" 100% of the time, when the question is "Can I give you some advice?”
    Demetri Martin, This is a Book
    tags: humor

  • #25
    Clare Boothe Luce
    “Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.”
    Clare Boothe Luce

  • #26
    Phyllis McGinley
    “A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.”
    Phyllis McGinley

  • #27
    William Wordsworth
    “The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
    William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads

  • #28
    Amy Bloom
    “You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
    Amy Bloom

  • #29
    Alice McDermott
    “We are surrounded by story.”
    Alice McDermott

  • #30
    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
    “Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.”
    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel



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