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“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

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

“Each of us, when our day's work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.”
― O. Henry

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

“The clock of life is wound but once,
And no man has the power
To tell just when the hands will stop
At late or early hour.

To lose one's wealth is sad indeed,
To lose one's health is more,
To lose one's soul is such a loss
That no man can restore.

The present only is our own,
So live, love, toil with a will,
Place no faith in "Tomorrow,"
For the Clock may then be still.”
― Robert H. Smith

“You can't get a suit of armour and a rubber chicken just like that. You have to plan ahead.”
― Michael Palin

“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
― Will Rogers

“My course is set for an uncharted sea.”
― Dante Alighieri

“It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.”
― W.C. Fields

“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

“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.”
― Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca

“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
― Louis L'Amour

“She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona the Pest

“The helpful thought for which you look
Is written somewhere in a book.”
― Edward Gorey

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
― Mark Twain

“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“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.”
― Roald Dahl

“Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone.
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own.”
― Adam Lindsay Gordon

“The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour”
― Beryl Bainbridge

“Don't be afraid. There's the two of us now.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

“I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.”
― A.A. Milne

“For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.”
― LeVar Burton

“To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.”
― Victor Hugo

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
― Charles M. Schulz

“It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.”
― Bill Watterson

“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.”
― Beatrix Potter

“The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”
― Isabel Allende

“Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.”
― Guy de Maupassant