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  • #1
    George Burns
    “You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.”
    George Burns

  • #2
    “True friends are like diamonds – bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.”
    Nicole Richie

  • #3
    C.G. Jung
    “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
    Carl Gustav Jung

  • #4
    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

  • #5
    William Styron
    “A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
    William Styron, Conversations with William Styron

  • #6
    Charles William Eliot
    “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
    Charles W. Eliot

  • #7
    C.S. Lewis
    “A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #8
    Pat Conroy
    “You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.”
    Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides

  • #9
    Joseph Brodsky
    “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
    Joseph Brodsky

  • #10
    Mortimer J. Adler
    “In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
    Mortimer J. Adler

  • #11
    Lemony Snicket
    “A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #12
    Stephen  King
    “Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
    Stephen King

  • #13
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
    Cicero

  • #14
    Pablo Picasso
    “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
    Pablo Picasso

  • #15
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #16
    Pablo Picasso
    “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
    Pablo Picasso
    tags: art

  • #17
    Henri Matisse
    “Creativity takes courage. ”
    Henri Matisse

  • #18
    Walt Disney Company
    “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. ”
    Walt Disney

  • #19
    Henry James
    “There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.”
    Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
    tags: tea

  • #20
    Sydney  Smith
    “Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.”
    Sydney Smith, A Memoir of the Rev. Sydney Smith; 2 volume set

  • #21
    Jack Kerouac
    “Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub.”
    Jack Kerouac, Lonesome Traveler

  • #22
    Sydney  Smith
    “No furniture is so charming as books.”
    Sydney Smith , A Memoir of the Rev. Sydney Smith; 2 volume set

  • #23
    René Descartes
    “The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.”
    René Descartes

  • #24
    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

  • #25
    George Eliot
    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    George Eliot

  • #26
    Neil Gaiman
    “Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections

  • #27
    Louisa May Alcott
    “I like good strong words that mean something…”
    Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

  • #28
    Gustave Flaubert
    “Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”
    Gustav Flaubert

  • #29
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #30
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    Robert Frost



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