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  • #1
    Abraham Lincoln
    “I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.”
    Abraham Lincoln

  • #2
    “I'm a teenager trapped in an old body.”
    Betty White

  • #3
    Samuel Butler
    “Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.”
    Samuel Butler

  • #4
    Edith Sitwell
    “Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.”
    Edith Sitwell

  • #5
    L.M. Montgomery
    “Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
    L.M. Montgomery

  • #6
    Alfred Tennyson
    “Hope
    Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
    Whispering 'it will be happier'...”
    Alfred Lord Tennyson

  • #7
    Wilkie Collins
    “My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.”
    Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

  • #8
    Jack London
    “Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club.”
    Jack London

  • #9
    Nancy L. Silk
    “Love me, Love my dog(s).”
    Nancy L. Silk

  • #10
    Zelda Fitzgerald
    “She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.”
    Zelda Fitzgerald, The Collected Writings

  • #11
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

  • #12
    Steve  Martin
    “Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.”
    Steve Martin

  • #13
    A.A. Milne
    “Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
    A.A. Milne

  • #14
    John Donne
    “Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.”
    John Donne, The Poems of John Donne (Volume 1); Miscellaneous Poems (Songs and Sonnets) Elegies. Epithalamions, or Marriage Songs. Satires. Epigrams. the Progress of the Soul. Notes

  • #15
    Ezra Pound
    “Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”
    Ezra Pound

  • #16
    Thomas Merton
    “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
    Thomas Merton , No Man Is an Island
    tags: art

  • #17
    Judith Viorst
    “Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.”
    Judith Viorst, Love and Guilt and the Meaning of Life, Etc.

  • #18
    Fran Lebowitz
    “Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
    Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

  • #19
    Writers fish for the right words like fishermen fish for, um, whatever those aquatic creatures
    “Writers fish for the right words like fishermen fish for, um, whatever those aquatic creatures with fins and gills are called. 
”
    Jarod Kintz, This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

  • #20
    Charles Lamb
    “Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.”
    Charles Lamb, The life, letters and writings of Charles Lamb Volume 3

  • #21
    Isabelle Eberhardt
    “Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.”
    Isabelle Eberhardt, The Nomad: Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt

  • #22
    André Breton
    “My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.”
    André Breton, What Is Surrealism?: Selected Writings

  • #23
    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    “My heart is warm with the friends I make,
    And better friends I'll not be knowing,
    Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take,
    No matter where it's going.”
    Edna St. Vincent Millay, The Selected Poetry

  • #24
    Victor Hugo
    “Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”
    Victor Hugo, William Shakespeare

  • #25
    Dr. Seuss
    “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
    Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

  • #26
    Toni Morrison
    “Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul.”
    Toni Morrison, The Nobel Lecture In Literature, 1993

  • #27
    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

  • #28
    Chaim Potok
    “I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.”
    Chaim Potok, The Chosen

  • #29
    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

  • #30
    E.M. Forster
    “It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.”
    E.M. Forster, A Room with a View



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