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  • #1
    Nikos Kazantzakis
    “I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.”
    Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

  • #2
    Dylan Thomas
    “Do not go gentle into that good night.
    Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
    Dylan Thomas, In Country Sleep, and Other Poems

  • #3
    David Foster Wallace
    “Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
    David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

  • #4
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  • #5
    Daphne du Maurier
    “But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
    Daphne du Maurier

  • #6
    Horton Foote
    “I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them...to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and don’t ask quarters.”
    Horton Foote

  • #7
    William Shakespeare
    “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
    William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

  • #8
    Alice Hoffman
    “Books may well be the only true magic.”
    Alice Hoffman

  • #9
    William Gibson
    “The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.”
    William Gibson, Pattern Recognition

  • #10
    Lawrence Ferlinghetti
    “I am awaiting
    perpetually and forever
    a renaissance of wonder”
    Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  • #11
    Joseph Campbell
    “Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”
    Joseph Campbell

  • #12
    Vincent van Gogh
    “Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.”
    Vincent Van Gogh

  • #13
    Nikolai Gogol
    “The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.”
    Nikolai V. Gogol

  • #14
    Hans Christian Andersen
    “But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”
    Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid

  • #15
    Zelda Fitzgerald
    “Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
    Zelda Fitzgerald

  • #16
    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    Mark Twain

  • #17
    Lord Byron
    “And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.”
    George Gordon Byron

  • #18
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #19
    Rafael Sabatini
    “He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.”
    Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche

  • #20
    Richard P. Feynman
    “Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”
    Richard P. Feynman

  • #21
    Adrienne Rich
    “There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.”
    Adrienne Rich

  • #22
    Alexander Pope
    “Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”
    Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism

  • #23
    Bram Stoker
    “Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!”
    Bram Stoker

  • #24
    Maxine Kumin
    “Cherish your wilderness.”
    Maxine Kumin

  • #25
    Emily Dickinson
    “If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.”
    Emily Dickinson

  • #26
    John Gillespie Magee Jr.
    “Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,
    And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings”
    John Gillespie MaGee Jr.

  • #27
    Josephine Winslow Johnson
    “The earth was overwhelmed with beauty and indifferent to it, and I went with a heart ready to crack for its unbearable loveliness.”
    Josephine Winslow Johnson, Now in November

  • #28
    Walt Whitman
    “I am large, I contain multitudes”
    Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

  • #29
    Jack London
    “I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.”
    Jack London

  • #30
    Joseph Mitchell
    “...you can hate a place with all your heart and soul and still be homesick for it.”
    Joseph Mitchell



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