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  • #1
    Gail Caldwell
    “I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures.”
    Gail Caldwell, Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship

  • #2
    Joe Klein
    “Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.”
    Joe Klein, Primary Colors

  • #3
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    “Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”
    Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign

  • #4
    Nicholson Baker
    “I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.”
    Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist

  • #5
    Deena Metzger
    “Without compassion, we will never know anyone or anything, not even our own story. Too much judgment, too many ideas and attitudes will stand in the way of the fundamental principle that we are similar to, connected with, and part of everything else.”
    Deena Metzger

  • #6
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    Mark Twain

  • #7
    Michel de Montaigne
    “The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. ”
    Michel de Montaigne

  • #8
    Khaled Hosseini
    “I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”
    Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

  • #9
    Rob Reiner
    “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

  • #10
    Daphne du Maurier
    “If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then, when one wanted it, the bottle could be uncorked, and it would be like living the moment all over again.”
    Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

  • #11
    Karen Blixen
    “I know of a cure for everything: salt water...in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.”
    Karen Blixen

  • #12
    August Wilson
    “Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.”
    August Wilson

  • #13
    Rabindranath Tagore
    “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
    Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

  • #14
    Margaret Fuller
    “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
    Margaret Fuller

  • #15
    James Joyce
    “Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.”
    James Joyce, Ulysses

  • #16
    Gabrielle Roy
    “The more the heart is nourished with happiness, the more it is insatiable.”
    Gabrielle Roy

  • #17
    J.K. Rowling
    “We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.”
    J.K. Rowling

  • #18
    Yves Saint-Laurent
    “We must never confuse elegance with snobbery”
    Yves Saint Laurent

  • #19
    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    Albert Camus

  • #20
    Erica Jong
    “Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”
    Erica Jong

  • #21
    Agatha Christie
    “I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
    Agatha Christie

  • #22
    Walter Tevis
    “I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way.”
    Walter Tevis

  • #23
    Diana Nyad
    “I wanted to teach myself some life lessons at the age of 60 and one of them was that you don’t give up.”
    Diana Nyad

  • #24
    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
    “Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.”
    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  • #25
    Eileen Chang
    “Between memory and reality there are awkward discrepancies...”
    Eileen Chang

  • #26
    Erma Bombeck
    “When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me.”
    Erma Bombeck

  • #27
    Nicholas Sparks
    “Every great love starts with a great story...”
    Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

  • #28
    Aldous Huxley
    “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
    Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929

  • #29
    William Wilberforce
    “You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.”
    William Wilberforce

  • #30
    Kami Garcia
    “We don't get to chose what is true. We only get to choose what we do about it.”
    Kami Garcia, Beautiful Darkness



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