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  • #1
    Octavia E. Butler
    “Choose your leaders
    with wisdom and forethought.
    To be led by a coward
    is to be controlled
    by all that the coward fears.
    To be led by a fool
    is to be led
    by the opportunists
    who control the fool.
    To be led by a thief
    is to offer up
    your most precious treasures
    to be stolen.
    To be led by a liar
    is to ask
    to be told lies.
    To be led by a tyrant
    is to sell yourself
    and those you love
    into slavery.”
    Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents

  • #2
    Paul Monette
    “Go without hate, but not without rage. Heal the world.”
    Paul Monette

  • #3
    James Branch Cabell
    “The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.”
    James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion

  • #4
    Nick Hornby
    “The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.”
    Nick Hornby, How to Be Good

  • #5
    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has.”
    Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

  • #6
    Judy Garland
    “Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.”
    Judy Garland

  • #7
    Judy Garland
    “I've always taken 'The Wizard of Oz' very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of the rainbow. And I've spent my entire life trying to get over it. ”
    Judy Garland

  • #8
    Lisa Scottoline
    “I’ve read that one out of twenty-four people is a sociopath, and if you ask me, the other twenty-three of you should be worried.”
    Lisa Scottoline, Every Fifteen Minutes

  • #9
    Margaret Atwood
    “If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.”
    Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

  • #10
    Margaret Atwood
    “Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.”
    Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

  • #11
    Margaret Atwood
    “When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time up in your hands, tossing it away. You're your own speeding car. You think you can get rid of things, and people too—leave them behind. You don't yet know about the habit they have, of coming back.

    Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been.”
    Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

  • #12
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #13
    Joseph Cassara
    “Life is a ferocious motherfucker, that’s what I always say. And it’s not death that you need to worry about. He always comes, and he’s usually quiet about it. But life, boy. She is loud and fast and—vicious.”
    Joseph Cassara, The House of Impossible Beauties

  • #14
    Ray Bradbury
    “But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.”
    Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

  • #15
    Isaac Asimov
    “Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'
    Isaac Asimov

  • #16
    Theodore Roosevelt
    “Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.”
    Theodore Roosevelt

  • #17
    Toni Morrison
    “You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
    Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

  • #18
    James Baldwin
    “I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”
    James Baldwin

  • #19
    Kevin Ansbro
    “Life is capricious; one moment you're high on a mountain peak with flag in hand, the next you're clinging to an icy ledge by your fingertips.”
    Kevin Ansbro

  • #20
    Matthew Edward Hall
    “What is a Messiah but another means of inequality?”
    Matthew Edward Hall, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

  • #21
    Matthew Edward Hall
    “To disassociate darkness from evil.”
    Matthew Edward Hall, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine



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