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  • #1
    James Baldwin
    “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
    James Baldwin

  • #2
    John   Waters
    “If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
    John Waters

  • #3
    Charles William Eliot
    “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
    Charles W. Eliot

  • #4
    “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
    Elizabeth Appell

  • #5
    Geoffrey Chaucer
    “The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.”
    Geoffrey Chaucer, The Parliament of Birds

  • #6
    Keri Hulme
    “You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read...”
    Keri Hulme, The Bone People

  • #7
    Samantha Young
    “Gentlemen are gentlemen in bed. They make sure you're having a good time."

    "I'll make sure you're having a good time, and that you're okay with everything. I just won't be well mannered about it.”
    Samantha Young, On Dublin Street

  • #9
    Aristotle
    “No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
    Aristotle

  • #10
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    “I Fall upon the thorns of life....”
    Percy Bysshe Shelly

  • #11
    Walt Whitman
    “The words of my book are nothing, the drift of it everything.”
    Walt Whitman

  • #12
    Peter De Vries
    “Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.”
    Peter De Vries, Reuben, Reuben

  • #13
    Dante Alighieri
    “The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and pain.”
    Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

  • #14
    Leo Tolstoy
    “If you want to be happy, be.”
    Leo Tolstory

  • #15
    Woody Allen
    “Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone you love.”
    Woody Allen, Standup Comic

  • #16
    Herman Melville
    “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
    Herman Melville

  • #17
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #18
    Roberto Bolaño
    “Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace.”
    Roberto Bolano



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