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  • #1
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Never laugh at live dragons.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien

  • #2
    William Goldman
    “When I was your age, television was called books.”
    William Goldman, The Princess Bride

  • #3
    William Goldman
    “My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!”
    William Goldman, The Princess Bride

  • #4
    Dave Barry
    “The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status, or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we all believe that we are above-average drivers.”
    Dave Barry, Dave Barry Turns 50

  • #5
    Niels Bohr
    “An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
    Niels Bohr

  • #6
    Lloyd Alexander
    “Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
    Lloyd Alexander

  • #7
    Galileo Galilei
    “I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.”
    Galileo Galilei

  • #8
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

  • #9
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Trolls simply detest the very sight of dwarves (uncooked).”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

  • #10
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “please don't cook me, kind sirs! I am a good cook myself, and cook better than I cook, if you see what I mean.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

  • #11
    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    Elie Wiesel

  • #12
    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Pero nadie pensaba que llegaría muy lejos, porque ni siquiera creo que fuera capaz de integrar e elevado a x.
    - ¿Es posible tal ignorancia? - preguntó alguien con asombro.
    - Puede que esté exagerando. Digamos x por e elevado a x.”
    Arthur C. Clarke, Tales from the White Hart

  • #13
    Anne Frank
    “I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.”
    Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

  • #14
    Anne Frank
    “Whoever is happy will make others happy.”
    Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

  • #15
    Anne Frank
    “People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion.”
    Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

  • #16
    Anne Frank
    “There's only one rule you need to remember: laugh at everything and forget everybody else! It sounds egotistical, but it's actually the only cure for those suffering from self-pity.”
    Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

  • #17
    Anne Frank
    “I wish to go on living even after my death.”
    Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

  • #18
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

  • #19
    Christopher Paolini
    Why does everything have to be so hard? [Eragon] wondered.

    Because, said Saphira, everyone wants to eat, but no one wants to be eaten.
    Christopher Paolini, Inheritance

  • #20
    Christopher Paolini
    “Go slowly, so that you do not bite your tail by accident.”
    Christopher Paolini, Inheritance

  • #21
    Anthony Trollope
    “A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.”
    Anthony Trollope

  • #22
    Audrey Niffenegger
    “Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?”
    Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

  • #23
    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

  • #24
    J.K. Rowling
    “Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me.”
    J.K. Rowling

  • #25
    Carl Sagan
    “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
    Carl Sagan

  • #26
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    “The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.”
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea

  • #27
    François Mauriac
    “If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.”
    Francois Mauriac

  • #28
    Guy de Maupassant
    “There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.”
    Guy de Maupassant, The Complete Short Stories of de Maupassant

  • #29
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.”
    Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

  • #30
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.”
    Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear



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