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  • #1
    Elizabeth  Taylor
    “The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.”
    Elizabeth Taylor

  • #2
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

  • #3
    Abigail Van Buren
    “The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
    Abigail Van Buren

  • #4
    Conan O'Brien
    “If you work really hard, and you're kind, amazing things will happen.”
    Conan O'Brien

  • #5
    Nora Ephron
    “What are you going to do? Everything, is my guess. It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications.”
    Nora Ephron

  • #6
    Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious
    “Tell me, what is it you plan to do
    with your one wild and precious life?”
    Mary Oliver

  • #7
    Dr. Seuss
    “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
    Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!

  • #8
    “You'll hit gold more often if you simply try out a lot of things.”
    Ira Glass

  • #9
    Jack Kerouac
    “Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.”
    Jack Kerouac

  • #10
    Julia Child
    “Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.”
    Julia Child

  • #11
    Sue Grafton
    “Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.”
    Sue Grafton

  • #12
    Annie Proulx
    “You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.”
    Annie Proulx

  • #13
    “A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.”
    Anonymous

  • #14
    E.E. Cummings
    “For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
    It's always our self we find in the sea.”
    e.e. cummings, 100 Selected Poems

  • #15
    Hunter S. Thompson
    “A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.”
    Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

  • #16
    Clifford Irving
    “And also don’t forget, the reason opportunity is often missed is that it usually comes disguised as hard work.”
    Clifford Irving, Trial

  • #17
    Henry Fielding
    “I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.”
    Henry Fielding

  • #18
    Georgia O'Keeffe
    “It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.”
    Georgia O'Keeffe

  • #19
    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

  • #20
    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

  • #21
    Gerald Durrell
    “A house is not a home until it has a dog.”
    Gerald Durrell

  • #22
    “Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.”
    Rob Reiner

  • #23
    Cormac McCarthy
    “You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
    Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

  • #24
    Bill Watterson
    “You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.”
    Bill Watterson

  • #25
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Write hard and clear about what hurts.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #26
    Henry David Thoreau
    “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.”
    Henry David Thoreau



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