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  • #1
    Neil Gaiman
    “Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

  • #2
    O. Henry
    “Each of us, when our day's work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.”
    O. Henry

  • #3
    Christopher McCandless
    “I read somewhere... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong... but to feel strong.”
    Christopher McCandless

  • #4
    Katherine Mansfield
    “The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”
    Katherine Mansfield

  • #5
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    “Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”
    Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign

  • #6
    Will Rogers
    “Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
    Will Rogers

  • #7
    “To learn something, to master something, anything, is as sweet as first love.”
    Geoffrey Wolff

  • #8
    Carl Sagan
    “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
    Carl Sagan

  • #9
    Bill Watterson
    “To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed, and I think you'll be happier for the trouble.”
    Bill Watterson

  • #10
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.”
    Robert Louis Stevenson

  • #11
    Christopher Paolini
    “Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?”
    Christopher Paolini

  • #12
    Sharon Olds
    “I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.”
    Sharon Olds

  • #13
    John Lennon
    “Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.”
    John Lennon

  • #14
    George Saunders
    “Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial.”
    George Saunders

  • #15
    Joseph Conrad
    “It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.”
    Joseph Conrad, An Outcast of the Islands

  • #16
    Neil Gaiman
    “I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #17
    Isaac Asimov
    “Any planet is 'Earth' to those that live on it.”
    Isaac Asimov, Pebble in the Sky

  • #18
    Evelyn Waugh
    “It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.”
    Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

  • #19
    Umberto Eco
    “We live for books.”
    Umberto Eco

  • #20
    Nicholson Baker
    “I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.”
    Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist

  • #21
    “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

  • #22
    Susan Sontag
    “Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.”
    Susan Sontag

  • #23
    Stendhal
    “One can acquire everything in solitude except character.”
    Stendhal, Five Short Novels of Stendhal

  • #24
    Stewart O'Nan
    “You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.”
    Stewart O'Nan, The Odds: A Love Story

  • #25
    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

  • #26
    Anaïs Nin
    “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
    Anais Nin

  • #27
    Tom Bodett
    “They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
    Tom Bodett

  • #28
    Irwin Shaw
    “There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”
    Irwin Shaw

  • #29
    Ralph Ellison
    “What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?”
    Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

  • #30
    Khaled Hosseini
    “I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”
    Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed



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