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  • #1
    Dave Eggers
    “Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”
    Dave Eggers

  • #2
    Betty Friedan
    “Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”
    Betty Friedan

  • #3
    Alice Hoffman
    “Books may well be the only true magic.”
    Alice Hoffman

  • #4
    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

  • #5
    Sheri S. Tepper
    “The practice of diplomacy, I have found, is sometimes like eating soup with a fork: much activity yielding little nourishment.”
    Sheri S. Tepper, The Fresco

  • #6
    Sheri S. Tepper
    “As vocabulary is reduced , so are the number of feelings you can express, the number of events you can describe, the number of the things you can identify! Not only understanding is limited, but also experience. Man grows by language. Whenever he limits language he retrogresses!”
    Sheri S. Tepper, A Plague of Angels

  • #7
    Mark Twain
    “What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.”
    Mark Twain

  • #8
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #9
    Isaac Asimov
    “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
    Isaac Asimov

  • #10
    Isaac Asimov
    “Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.”
    Isaac Asimov

  • #11
    Isaac Asimov
    “Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
    Isaac Asimov, Foundation

  • #12
    Lord Byron
    “And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.”
    George Gordon Byron

  • #13
    Cynthia Ozick
    “We take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”
    Cynthia Ozick

  • #14
    Edward Gibbon
    “The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.”
    Edward Gibbon

  • #15
    John Steinbeck
    “There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”
    John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

  • #16
    Adrienne Rich
    “There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.”
    Adrienne Rich

  • #17
    Lorraine Hansberry
    “The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.”
    Lorraine Hansberry

  • #18
    Hergé
    “Hooray! Hooray! The end of the world has been postponed! ”
    Hergé, The Shooting Star

  • #19
    Rachel Carson
    “The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”
    Rachel Carson

  • #20
    Ben Jonson
    “Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
    You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow;
    Best, while you have it, use your breath;
    There is no drinking after death.”
    Ben Jonson

  • #21
    Audrey Niffenegger
    “Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.”
    Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

  • #22
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”
    Winston Churchill

  • #23
    Hermann Hesse
    “Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”
    Herman Hesse

  • #24
    A.J. Cronin
    “Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.”
    A.J. Cronin

  • #25
    Beatrix Potter
    “Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were--Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter. ”
    Beatrix Potter

  • #26
    Beatrix Potter
    “Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.”
    Beatrix Potter

  • #27
    Beatrix Potter
    “I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.”
    Beatrix Potter

  • #28
    Herman Melville
    “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
    Herman Melville

  • #29
    Jorge Amado
    “The world is like that -- incomprehensible and full of surprises .”
    Jorge Amado, Gabriela, clavo y canela

  • #30
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    Mae West



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