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  • #1
    Voltaire
    “Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
    Voltaire

  • #2
    Samuel Beckett
    “We are all born mad. Some remain so.”
    Samuel Beckett

  • #3
    Shelby Foote
    “A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.”
    Shelby Foote

  • #4
    Ann Patchett
    “Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.”
    Ann Patchett, State of Wonder

  • #5
    Stephen        King
    “Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
    Stephen King

  • #6
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #7
    Albert Camus
    “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
    Albert Camus

  • #8
    Anne Rice
    “Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.”
    Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

  • #9
    Judith Viorst
    “Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.”
    Judith Viorst, Love and Guilt and the Meaning of Life, Etc.

  • #10
    Ishmael Reed
    “No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o’clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons.”
    Ishmael Reed, Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down

  • #11
    Laini Taylor
    “Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love.

    It did not end well.”
    Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

  • #12
    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

  • #13
    Graham Parke
    “I'm very polite by nature, even the voices in my head let each other finish their sentences.”
    Graham Parke, Unspent Time

  • #14
    Mark Strand
    “Each moment is a place
    you've never been.”
    Mark Strand, New Selected Poems

  • #15
    Peter S. Beagle
    “Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.”
    Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

  • #16
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream, exhale, release life's rapture.”
    Vladimir Nabokov

  • #17
    Thomas Pynchon
    “Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.”
    Thomas Pynchon, V.

  • #18
    Nora Ephron
    “Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
    Nora Ephron

  • #19
    Walt Whitman
    “Resist much, obey little.”
    Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

  • #20
    Philip Barry
    “The time to make up your mind about people, is never.”
    Philip Barry, The Philadelphia Story: A Comedy in Three Acts

  • #21
    J.D. Salinger
    “I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #22
    John Green
    “What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #23
    John Green
    “You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.”
    John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

  • #24
    John Green
    “I may die young, but at least I'll die smart.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #25
    Francis Bacon
    “Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
    Sir Francis Bacon

  • #26
    Agatha Christie
    “The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.”
    Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express

  • #27
    William Golding
    “My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.”
    William Golding

  • #28
    Emily Dickinson
    “Not knowing when the dawn will come
    I open every door.”
    Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

  • #29
    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
    Arthur C. Clarke

  • #30
    Isaac Newton
    “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”
    Isaac Newton, The Correspondence of Isaac Newton: Volume 5, 1709–1713



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