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  • #1
    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

  • #2
    Seán O'Casey
    “When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.”
    Sean O'Casey, THREE MORE PLAYS BY SEAN O'CASEY:THE SILVER TASSIE;PURPLE DUST;RED ROSES FOR ME [Paperback]

  • #3
    Richard Hughes
    “Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.”
    Richard Hughes

  • #4
    Amy Sedaris
    “I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.”
    Amy Sedaris, I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence

  • #5
    Jean de la Fontaine
    “A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”
    Jean de La Fontaine, Fables

  • #6
    Zig Ziglar
    “Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.”
    Zig Ziglar, Raising Positive Kids in a Negative World

  • #7
    Lynn Austin
    “That's absurd," I said with a little laugh. "Nobody can read too much. That's like saying someone breathes too much.”
    Lynn Austin, Wonderland Creek

  • #8
    Lewis Carroll
    “Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

  • #9
    Françoise Gilot
    “It's ludicrous to even talk about (Marquis) de Sade, let alone indulge in all that, when people are being tortured and suffering for real, not for sexual games. I have no interest either in being a victim or in turning others into victims.”
    Françoise Gilot

  • #10
    Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    “Never say more than is necessary.”
    Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  • #11
    Richard Wright
    “Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...”
    Richard Wright, Black Boy

  • #12
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “She is deranged, but so so playful.”
    Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

  • #13
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #14
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #15
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    Mark Twain

  • #16
    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    Elbert Hubbard

  • #17
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

  • #18
    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

  • #19
    Lucille Clifton
    “may you kiss
    the wind then turn from it
    certain that it will
    love your back”
    Lucille Clifton

  • #20
    Gilda Radner
    “I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end.”
    Gilda Radner

  • #21
    A.J. Cronin
    “Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.”
    A.J. Cronin

  • #22
    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

  • #23
    Jorge Amado
    “The world is like that -- incomprehensible and full of surprises .”
    Jorge Amado, Gabriela, clavo y canela

  • #24
    Charles Bukowski
    “what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #25
    José Saramago
    “If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?”
    José Saramago, Blindness

  • #26
    Elizabeth George Speare
    “What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree...”
    Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond

  • #27
    Douglas Adams
    “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
    Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

  • #28
    William Wordsworth
    “The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
    William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads

  • #29
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
    Ludwig Wittgenstein

  • #30
    Pearl S. Buck
    “Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”
    Pearl S. Buck



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