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  • #1
    John  Ford
    “Revenge proves its own executioner.”
    John Ford, Broken Heart

  • #2
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #3
    John Green
    “What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #4
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    Mae West

  • #5
    Annie Proulx
    “You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
    Annie Proulx

  • #6
    Émile Zola
    “Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.”
    Emile Zola

  • #7
    Colette
    “You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”
    Colette

  • #8
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    “Books are the carriers of civilization...They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.”
    Barbara W. Tuchman

  • #9
    Lucille Clifton
    “You might as well answer the door, my child,
    the truth is furiously knocking.”
    Lucille Clifton, Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980

  • #10
    Walter Mosley
    “We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.”
    Walter Mosley, Blue Light

  • #11
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #12
    Brian Moore
    “Love isn't an act, it's a whole life.”
    Brian Moore

  • #13
    C.J. Cherryh
    “Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed!”
    C. J. Cherryh

  • #14
    “Love cannot be reduced to a catalogue of reasons why, and a catalogue of reasons cannot be put together into love.”
    Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries

  • #15
    Kate Mosse
    “We are who we are, be­cause of those we choose to love and be­cause of those who love us.”
    Kate Mosse, The Winter Ghosts

  • #16
    Lee Child
    “I don't want to put the world to rights... I just don't like people who put the world to wrongs.”
    Lee Child, 61 Hours

  • #17
    Agatha Christie
    “Very few of us are what we seem.”
    Agatha Christie, The Man in the Mist

  • #18
    John Milton
    “What hath night to do with sleep?”
    John Milton, Paradise Lost

  • #19
    Edna O'Brien
    “In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.”
    Edna O'Brien, A Fanatic Heart: Selected Stories

  • #20
    B.K.S. Iyengar
    “The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.”
    B.K.S. Iyengar, Light on Life

  • #21
    Nicholson Baker
    “Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.”
    Nicholson Baker

  • #22
    Diana Gabaldon
    “For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary”
    Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

  • #23
    Frank Miller
    “The world doesn't make sense until you force it to.”
    Frank Miller

  • #24
    Juan Rulfo
    “Nothing can last forever. There isn't any memory, no matter how intense, that doesn't fade out at last.”
    Juan Rulfo

  • #25
    Jodi Picoult
    “Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.”
    Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

  • #26
    Ken Jennings
    “Trivia is mainstream. 'Nerd' is the new 'cool.”
    Ken Jennings

  • #27
    John Masefield
    “The days that make us happy make us wise.”
    John Masefield

  • #28
    René Char
    “I believe in the magic and authority of words.”
    René Char

  • #29
    Erich Segal
    “True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.”
    Erich Segal

  • #30
    James M. Cain
    “If your writing doesn't keep you up at night, it won't keep anyone else up either”
    James M. Cain



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