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  • #1
    David  Lynch
    “I don't think it was pain that made [Vincent Van Gogh] great - I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he had.”
    David Lynch
    tags: art

  • #2
    Roald Dahl
    “So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
    Go throw your TV set away,
    And in its place you can install
    A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
    Then fill the shelves with lots of books.”
    Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

  • #3
    Douglas Adams
    “It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.”
    Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

  • #4
    Bill Watterson
    “The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning and inhibit clarity.”
    Bill Watterson

  • #5
    Philip K. Dick
    “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
    Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon

  • #6
    Maya Angelou
    “Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.”
    Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

  • #7
    Neil Gaiman
    “When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel and not having to get up too early in the morning.”
    Neil Gaiman, Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions

  • #8
    José Saramago
    “We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other.”
    José Saramago

  • #9
    José Saramago
    “We say Fine, even though we may be dying, and this is commonly known as taking one's courage in both hands, a phenomenon that has only been observed in the human species.”
    José Saramago

  • #10
    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #11
    Hunter S. Thompson
    “I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.”
    Hunter S. Thompson

  • #12
    Jules Verne
    “We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.”
    Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth

  • #13
    “No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.”
    Atwood H. Townsend

  • #14
    Charlotte Brontë
    “Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.”
    Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

  • #15
    Ingrid Law
    “I suppose you can never tell right off who might have a piece of Prince Charming deep down inside.”
    Ingrid Law, Savvy

  • #16
    Ingrid Law
    “You never can tell when a bad thing might make a good thing happen. I realized that good and bad were always there and always mixed up together in a tangle. ”
    Ingrid Law, Savvy

  • #17
    Ingrid Law
    “In most ways, Mibs, we Beaumonts are just like other people...We get born, and sometime later we die. And in between, we're happy and sad, we feel love and we feel fear, we eat and we sleep and we hurt like everyone else.

    —Momma”
    Ingrid Law, Savvy

  • #18
    Ingrid Law
    “Will looked back at me, startled, and I kept my heart muscle strong, feeling something inside me shiver like a pale green flower shoot just waking up for spring. But whatever that thing was, it was still too new to feel ready to bloom; it wanted time to set down roots. Someday soon I was going to bloom like crazy and then I'd have what I needed to keep me standing tall.”
    Ingrid Law, Savvy

  • #19
    Leo Tolstoy
    “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
    Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

  • #20
    Leo Tolstoy
    “I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be. -Dolly”
    Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenin

  • #21
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #22
    Edward Bellamy
    “I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twentieth century as compared with the intolerable management of those of the nineteenth century, in which the books were jealously railed away from the people, and obtainable only at an expenditure of time and red tape calculated to discourage any ordinary taste for literature.”
    Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward: 2000-1887

  • #23
    Richard P. Feynman
    “Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.”
    Richard P. Feynman

  • #24
    Richard P. Feynman
    “You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.”
    Richard P. Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character

  • #25
    Richard P. Feynman
    “I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.”
    Richard P. Feynman

  • #26
    Richard P. Feynman
    “If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.”
    Richard P. Feynman

  • #27
    Richard P. Feynman
    “What Do You Care What Other People Think?”
    Richard P. Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman/What Do You Care What Other People Think?

  • #28
    Toni Morrison
    “You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
    Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

  • #29
    Judy Blume
    “Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.”
    Judy Blume

  • #30
    Lemony Snicket
    “Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid



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