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  • #1
    Willa Cather
    “The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own.”
    Willa Cather

  • #2
    Charles Frazier
    “Claim your space. Draw a circle of light around it. Push back against the dark. Don't just survive. Celebrate.”
    Charles Frazier, Nightwoods

  • #3
    Bernard Kelvin Clive
    “Permit your dreams to see the daylight.”
    Bernard Kelvin Clive

  • #4
    Louisa May Alcott
    “Human minds are more full of mysteries than any written book and more changeable than the cloud shapes in the air.”
    Louisa May Alcott, The Abbot's Ghost: A Christmas Story

  • #5
    Gail Sheehy
    “Creativity could be described as letting go of certainties.”
    Gail Sheehy

  • #6
    “Always tell the truth. It's the easiest thing to remember.”
    David Mamet

  • #7
    Candace Bushnell
    “Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.”
    Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City

  • #8
    Morgan Llywelyn
    “I'm Irish!...When I feel well I feel better than anyone, when I am in pain I yell at the top of my lungs, and when I am dead I shall be deader than anybody.”
    Morgan Llywelyn

  • #9
    Joyce Cary
    “To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.”
    Joyce Cary, The Horse's Mouth

  • #10
    Grace Paley
    “Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.”
    Grace Paley

  • #11
    Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
    “Do not complain beneath the stars about the lack of bright spots in your life.”
    Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

  • #12
    Muriel Rukeyser
    “The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”
    Muriel Rukeyser

  • #13
    T.S. Eliot
    “Unreal friendship may turn to real
    But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended”
    T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral

  • #14
    Patti Smith
    “Everything distracted me, but most of all myself.”
    Patti Smith, Just Kids

  • #15
    Carol Ryrie Brink
    “The most truly generous persons are those who give silently without hope of praise or reward.”
    Carol Ryrie Brink, Caddie Woodlawn's Family

  • #16
    Alan Alda
    “Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”
    Alan Alda

  • #17
    Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
    “Written words can also sing.”
    Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Dreams in a Time of War

  • #18
    E.L. Doctorow
    “[Writing is] like driving a car at night: you never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”
    E.L. Doctorow

  • #19
    Maria Edgeworth
    “If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.”
    Maria Edgeworth

  • #20
    Robinson Jeffers
    “The heads of strong old age are beautiful / Beyond all grace of youth”
    Robinson Jeffers

  • #21
    Jay McInerney
    “The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.”
    Jay McInerney, The Last of the Savages

  • #22
    Emily Hahn
    “The steward just asked me if I was not afraid to travel alone, and I said, "Why, it is life.”
    Emily Hahn, Congo Solo: Misadventures Two Degrees North

  • #23
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.”
    Martin Luther King Jr.

  • #24
    Anne Brontë
    “Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.”
    Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

  • #25
    A.A. Milne
    “People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”
    A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

  • #26
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.”
    Edgar Allan Poe, The Poetic Principle

  • #27
    R.A. Salvatore
    “Joy multiplies when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division. That is life.”
    R.A. Salvatore, Exile

  • #28
    Lord Byron
    “Always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine.”
    Lord Byron

  • #29
    Jane Austen
    “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!”
    Jane Austen

  • #30
    Romain Rolland
    “If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself.”
    Romain Rolland



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