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  • #1
    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.”
    Napoleon Bonaparte

  • #2
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude”
    Eleanor Roosevelt

  • #3
    Stephen  King
    “Sarcastic people tend to be marshmallows underneath the armor”
    Stephen King, 11/22/63

  • #4
    Victor Hugo
    “He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
    Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

  • #5
    Dodie Smith
    “Ah, but you're the insidious type--Jane Eyre with of touch of Becky Sharp. A thoroughly dangerous girl.”
    Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

  • #6
    Richard Wright
    “Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...”
    Richard Wright, Black Boy

  • #7
    Madeleine K. Albright
    “There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women."

    (Keynote speech at Celebrating Inspiration luncheon with the WNBA's All-Decade Team, 2006)”
    Madeleine Albright

  • #9
    Daphne du Maurier
    “But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
    Daphne du Maurier

  • #10
    Terry Pratchett
    “In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.”
    Terry Pratchett, Soul Music

  • #11
    Alice Hoffman
    “Books may well be the only true magic.”
    Alice Hoffman

  • #12
    Louis Adamic
    “My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.”
    Louis Adamic

  • #13
    Neil Gaiman
    “I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll make something that didn't exist before you made it, that you will be loved and that you will be liked, and that you will have people to love and to like in return. And, most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now), that you will, when you need to be, be wise, and that you will always be kind.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #14
    E.B. White
    “Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.”
    E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

  • #15
    Hans Christian Andersen
    “But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”
    Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid

  • #16
    Cynthia Ozick
    “We take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”
    Cynthia Ozick

  • #17
    Lord Byron
    “And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.”
    George Gordon Byron

  • #18
    Richard P. Feynman
    “Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”
    Richard P. Feynman

  • #19
    “Do your thing and don't care if they like it.”
    Tina Fey, Bossypants

  • #20
    Margaret Wise Brown
    “Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere.”
    Margaret Wise Brown, Goodnight Moon

  • #21
    Michael Chabon
    “Drunk, Jane spoke as though she were Nancy Drew. I was a fool for a girl with a dainty lexicon.”
    Michael Chabon, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

  • #22
    Samuel Pepys
    “Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.”
    Samuel Pepys, The Diary of Samuel Pepys

  • #23
    Diane Setterfield
    “Do they sense it, these dead writers, when their books are read? Does a pinprick of light appear in their darkness? Is their soul stirred by the feather touch of another mind reading theirs? I do hope so. ”
    Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

  • #24
    Stephen  King
    “Nobody likes a clown at midnight”
    Stephen King

  • #25
    Margaret Mitchell
    “With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.”
    Margaret Mitchell

  • #26
    Jen Lancaster
    “I'm not lazy. I'm simply judicious about excess movement.”
    Jen Lancaster, Such a Pretty Fat: One Narcissist's Quest to Discover If Her Life Makes Her Ass Look Big, or Why Pie Is Not the Answer

  • #27
    David Hockney
    “I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money - I think that can be a burden - I’m greedy for an exciting life.”
    David Hockney

  • #28
    Sarah Dessen
    “Oh darling, don't be bitter. It's the first instinct of the weak.”
    Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride

  • #29
    C.G. Jung
    “I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
    Carl Gustav Jung

  • #30
    J.K. Rowling
    “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #31
    Criss Jami
    “It's much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity.”
    Criss Jami, Killosophy



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