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  • #1
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #2
    A.A. Milne
    “Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
    A.A. Milne

  • #3
    H. Havelock Ellis
    “the place where optism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.”
    Havelock Ellis, The Task Of Social Hygiene

  • #4
    Julian Barnes
    “Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.”
    Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot

  • #5
    Phyllis Diller
    “Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.”
    Phyllis Diller

  • #6
    Anton Chekhov
    “Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
    Anton Chekhov

  • #7
    Robert Jordan
    “In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes”
    Robert Jordan, To the Blight

  • #8
    Langston Hughes
    “Life is for the living.
    Death is for the dead.
    Let life be like music.
    And death a note unsaid.”
    Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems

  • #9
    Robert Jordan
    “The wheel weaves as the wheel wills”
    Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time: Boxed Set #3

  • #10
    Pablo Picasso
    “Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
    Pablo Picasso

  • #11
    Fran Lebowitz
    “Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
    Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

  • #12
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

  • #13
    Robert Jordan
    “If wishes had wings, sheep would fly.”
    Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World

  • #14
    Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
    “A man sometimes devotes his life to a desire which he is not sure will ever be fulfilled. Those who laugh at this folly are, after all, no more than mere spectators of life.”
    Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Rashomon and Other Stories

  • #15
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    “Earth's crammed with heaven...
    But only he who sees, takes off his shoes.”
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh

  • #16
    Philip Roth
    “Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.”
    Philip Roth

  • #17
    Robert Jordan
    “Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.”
    Robert Jordan

  • #18
    Raymond E. Feist
    “Never underestimate the potential for human stupidity when wealth and power are at stake.”
    Raymond E. Feist

  • #19
    Robert Jordan
    “hope is like a piece of string when you’re drowning; it just isn’t enough to get you out by itself.”
    Robert Jordan

  • #20
    Cassandra Clare
    “to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

  • #21
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #22
    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    Mark Twain

  • #23
    Lawrence Ferlinghetti
    “Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.”
    Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Americus, Book I

  • #24
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #25
    Steve Jobs
    “Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
    Steve Jobs

  • #26
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #27
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

  • #28
    Bil Keane
    “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
    Bill Keane

  • #29
    “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
    Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married

  • #30
    “There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”
    Linda Grayson



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