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  • #1
    John Steinbeck
    “And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.”
    John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

  • #2
    Benjamin Franklin
    “Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
    Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

  • #3
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
    Mahatma Gandhi, All Men Are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

  • #4
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.”
    P.G. Wodehouse, Mostly Sally

  • #5
    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves.”
    Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

  • #6
    W.C. Fields
    “I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. ”
    W.C. Fields

  • #7
    “It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.”
    Ann Patchett, Bel Canto

  • #8
    Katharine Graham
    “The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is the most debilitating to the person who bears it.”
    Katharine Graham

  • #9
    Tony Kushner
    “In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.”
    Tony Kushner, Perestroika

  • #10
    Emily Brontë
    “I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.”
    Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

  • #11
    Guy de Maupassant
    “Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.”
    Guy de Maupassant

  • #12
    Charles Bukowski
    “what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #13
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    Mae West

  • #14
    Leo Tolstoy
    “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
    Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

  • #15
    Fannie Flagg
    “Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead.”
    Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

  • #16
    Guillermo del Toro
    “The underground of the city is like what's underground in people. Beneath the surface, it's boiling with monsters.”
    Guillermo Del Toro

  • #17
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
    Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

  • #18
    Ishmael Beah
    “Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them. ”
    Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

  • #19
    Leonard Woolf
    “Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.”
    Leonard Woolf

  • #20
    Margaret Mead
    “I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.”
    Margaret Mead

  • #21
    Kenneth Rexroth
    “Crooked cards and straight whiskey,
    Slow horses and fast women.”
    Kenneth Rexroth

  • #23
    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

  • #24
    Elizabeth Strout
    “I suspect the most we can hope for, and it's no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love.”
    Elizabeth Strout, Abide with Me

  • #25
    “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

  • #26
    “Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.”
    Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding

  • #27
    My course is set for an uncharted sea.
    “My course is set for an uncharted sea.”
    Dante Alighieri

  • #28
    Paul Auster
    “Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
    Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

  • #29
    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

  • #30
    Abraham Lincoln
    “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
    Abraham Lincoln

  • #31
    Henry Adams
    “Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.”
    Henry Adams



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