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  • #1
    Charles Bukowski
    “Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #2
    Corrie ten Boom
    “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
    Corrie Ten Boom, Clippings from My Notebook

  • #3
    Maxim Gorky
    “Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”
    Maxim Gorky, The Lower Depths and Other Plays

  • #4
    Thomas Pynchon
    “Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.”
    Thomas Pynchon, V.

  • #5
    Philip Roth
    “The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open. ”
    Philip Roth, The Dying Animal
    tags: love

  • #6
    J.M. Barrie
    “I'm not young enough to know everything.”
    J.M. Barrie, The Admirable Crichton

  • #7
    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

  • #8
    Henry Ford
    “Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”
    Henry Ford

  • #9
    Margaret Atwood
    “Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future.”
    Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye

  • #10
    William Arthur Ward
    “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
    William Arthur Ward

  • #11
    Emily Dickinson
    “Not knowing when the dawn will come
    I open every door.”
    Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

  • #12
    George Saunders
    “Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.”
    George Saunders, The Braindead Megaphone

  • #13
    Barbara Taylor Bradford
    “We are each the authors of our own lives, Emma. We live in what we have created. There is no way to shift the blame and no one else to accept the accolades.”
    Barbara Taylor Bradford, A Woman of Substance

  • #14
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    “There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.”
    Kazuo Ishiguro

  • #15
    Stephen W. Hawking
    “We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”
    Stephen Hawking

  • #16
    Sylvia Plath
    “If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

  • #17
    Walter Cronkite
    “Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
    Walter Cronkite

  • #18
    Andrew Carnegie
    “A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.”
    Andrew Carnegie

  • #19
    Garvin Matthews
    “I have learnt that greatness comes from within, it's like a plant, it doesn't grow unless you want it to, but you have to be careful that it doesn't imprison you in a mental state of mind.”
    Garvin Matthews

  • #20
    Anthony Bourdain
    “I don't have to agree with you to like you or respect you.”
    Anthony Bourdain

  • #21
    Kevin Ansbro
    “A book should grab you by the lapels and kiss you into tomorrow.”
    Kevin Ansbro



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