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  • #1
    Leo Rosten
    “O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.”
    Leo Rosten

  • #2
    William Styron
    “A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
    William Styron, Conversations with William Styron

  • #3
    W.B. Yeats
    “For he would be thinking of love
    Till the stars had run away
    And the shadows eaten the moon.”
    W.B. Yeats, Selected Poems and Four Plays

  • #4
    E.L. Doctorow
    “Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
    E.L. Doctorow

  • #5
    Christopher  Morley
    “There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”
    Christopher Morley, Pipefuls

  • #6
    Frank McCourt
    “You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
    Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes

  • #7
    China Miéville
    “A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.”
    China Miéville, King Rat

  • #8
    Edward Lear
    “And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
    They danced by the light of the moon.”
    Edward Lear, The Owl and the Pussycat

  • #9
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    Mae West

  • #10
    Barry Lyga
    “You won't even know you've crossed the line until it's way back in your rearview mirror.”
    Barry Lyga, I Hunt Killers

  • #11
    Hal Borland
    “No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”
    Hal Borland

  • #12
    Katharine Hepburn
    “If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.”
    Katharine Hepburn

  • #13
    Julia Child
    “I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.”
    Julia Child

  • #14
    Confucius
    “Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.”
    Confucius

  • #15
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #16
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #17
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    Mark Twain

  • #18
    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    Narcotics Anonymous

  • #19
    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

  • #20
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #21
    Charles Bukowski
    “Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #22
    Oscar Wilde
    “Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
    Oscar Wilde, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories



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