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  • #1
    Robin Hobb
    “When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.”
    Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice

  • #2
    Terry Pratchett
    “And what would humans be without love?"
    RARE, said Death.”
    Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

  • #3
    Stephen  King
    “If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
    Stephen King

  • #4
    Terry Pratchett
    “I tell you, commander, it's true that some of the most terrible things in the world are done by people who think, genuinely think, that they're doing it for the best, especially if there is some god involved.”
    Terry Pratchett, Snuff

  • #5
    Terry Pratchett
    “Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
    Terry Pratchett

  • #6
    Brandon Sanderson
    “By now, it is probably very late at night, and you have stayed up to read this book when you should have gone to sleep. If this is the case, then I commend you for falling into my trap. It is a writer's greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of his books. It goes back to authors being terrible people who delight in the suffering of others. Plus, we get a kickback from the caffeine industry...”
    Brandon Sanderson, Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

  • #7
    T.S. Eliot
    “For last year's words belong to last year's language
    And next year's words await another voice.”
    T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

  • #8
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #9
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”
    Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

  • #10
    “Tolerance is most decidedly not the equal of respect. It pales in comparison. In inter-personal relationships, tolerance as the basis of attitude and conduct is insulting, belittling and offensive. It smacks of condescension.”
    Keat Peng Goh, A People's Politics

  • #11
    “Blind patriotism on the part of its leaders and citizens, far from leading a nation to greatness, will only bring ruin, disgrace and misery to the nation and its people. Self-delusion isn’t complementary to greatness. A nation will be great only if it has the courage to face up to its own shortcomings, and not be blind to its own wrongdoings, failings, mistakes, imperfections and impurities.”
    Keat Peng Goh, A People's Politics

  • #12
    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    William W. Purkey

  • #13
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

  • #14
    Anne Lamott
    “Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.”
    Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

  • #15
    W.E.B. Du Bois
    “The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.”
    W.E.B. Du Bois

  • #16
    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

  • #17
    Terry Pratchett
    “The jurisdiction of a good man extends to the end of the world.”
    Terry Pratchett, Snuff

  • #18
    Damyanti Biswas
    “Love enters later in life through the cracks left by the first heartbreak.”
    D. Biswas, A to Z Stories of Life and Death

  • #19
    Dorothy Allison
    “Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is the way you can both hate and love something you are not sure you understand.”
    Dorothy Allison, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure

  • #20
    Lord Byron
    “And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.”
    George Gordon Byron

  • #21
    A.J. Cronin
    “Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.”
    A.J. Cronin

  • #22
    “Honor from death,” I snap, “is a myth. Invented by the war torn to make sense of the horrific. If we die, it will be so that others may live. Truly honorable death, the only honorable death, is one that enables life.”
    Rae Carson, The Girl of Fire and Thorns

  • #23
    Isaac Asimov
    “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
    Isaac Asimov

  • #24
    David Gemmell
    “Never violate a woman, nor harm a child. Do not lie, cheat or steal. These things are for lesser men. Protect the weak against the evil strong. And never allow thoughts of gain to lead you into the persuit of evil.”
    David Gemmell, White Wolf

  • #25
    David Gemmell
    “There is evil in all of us, and it is the mark of a man how he defies the evil within.”
    David Gemmell, Waylander
    tags: evil, good, man

  • #26
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

  • #27
    Bill Watterson
    “You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.
    What mood is that?
    Last-minute panic.”
    Bill Watterson

  • #28
    “Procrastinate now, don't put it off.”
    Ellen DeGeneres

  • #29
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
    Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

  • #30
    Neil Jordan
    “Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?”
    Neil Jordan, The Dream of a Beast



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