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  • #1
    Arturo Pérez-Reverte
    “You don't choose your friends, they choose you, and you either reject them or you accept them without reservations.”
    Arturo Pérez-Reverte, The Flanders Panel

  • #2
    Frank Miller
    “The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.”
    Frank Miller

  • #3
    Arturo Pérez-Reverte
    “I once wrestled with an angel. He won, but I learned a few things.”
    Arturo Perez-Reverte

  • #4
    Arturo Pérez-Reverte
    “Because God and the devil could be one and the same thing, and everybody understood it in his own way.”
    Arturo Pérez-Reverte, El club Dumas

  • #5
    Alessandro Baricco
    “This is the seashore. Neither land nor sea. It’s a place that does not exist.”
    Alessandro Baricco, Ocean Sea

  • #6
    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”
    Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

  • #7
    Sarah Wendell
    “Being in the habit of saying "Thank you," of making sure that people receive attention so they know you value them, of not presuming that people will always be there--this is a good habit, regardless...make sure to give virtual and actual high-fives to those who rock and rock hard.”
    Sarah Wendell, Everything I Know About Love I Learned from Romance Novels

  • #8
    James Baldwin
    “Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
    James Baldwin

  • #9
    Honoré de Balzac
    “Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
    Honoré de Balzac

  • #10
    William Saroyan
    “When you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”
    William Saroyan

  • #11
    Victoria Holt
    “Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.”
    Victoria Holt

  • #12
    Anne Rice
    “You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence and your suffering.”
    Anne Rice

  • #13
    Maxine Hong Kingston
    “In a time of destruction, create something.”
    Maxine Hong Kingston

  • #14
    Beth Lisick
    “The world is so strange that maybe it’s perfectly logical.”
    Beth Lisick

  • #15
    Noël Coward
    “It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”
    Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit

  • #16
    Harper Lee
    “I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #17
    David Sedaris
    “Sometimes the sins you haven't committed are all you have left to hold onto.”
    David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed in Flames

  • #18
    Steve Jobs
    “Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
    Steve Jobs

  • #19
    Katherine Anne Porter
    “I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.”
    Katherine Anne Porter

  • #20
    C.S. Lewis
    “I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #21
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
    Robert Louis Stevenson

  • #22
    Astrid Lindgren
    “A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.”
    Astrid Lindgren

  • #23
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
    Winston S. Churchill

  • #24
    Toni Morrison
    “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
    Toni Morrison

  • #25
    Thomas Paine
    “The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
    Thomas Paine, A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North America

  • #26
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    Robert Frost

  • #27
    Kenzaburō Ōe
    “The dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live.”
    Kenzaburō Ōe, Hiroshima Notes

  • #28
    J.K. Rowling
    “I solemnly swear that I'm up to no good.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

  • #29
    Elizabeth Peters
    “No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.”
    Elizabeth Peters

  • #30
    Allen Ginsberg
    “I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view. ”
    Allen Ginsberg



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