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  • #1
    John   Waters
    “If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
    John Waters

  • #2
    Henry Miller
    “A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
    Henry Miller, The Books in My Life

  • #3
    Henry Miller
    “The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
    Henry Miller

  • #4
    Paul Theroux
    “Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation-- experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way”
    Paul Theroux, Sir Vidia's Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents

  • #5
    Roland Barthes
    “I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.”
    Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text

  • #6
    Bill Nye
    “Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.”
    Bill Nye

  • #7
    Gilles Deleuze
    “A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.”
    Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

  • #8
    Mary Leakey
    “Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.”
    Mary Leakey

  • #9
    Toni Morrison
    “She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.”
    Toni Morrison, Beloved

  • #10
    Toni Morrison
    “You are your best thing”
    Toni Morrison, Beloved

  • #11
    Don DeLillo
    “Sometimes I see something so moving I know I’m not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave.”
    Don DeLillio, Underworld

  • #12
    Toni Morrison
    “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
    Toni Morrison

  • #13
    Toni Morrison
    “Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”
    Toni Morrison, Beloved

  • #14
    Don DeLillo
    “Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live.”
    Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis

  • #15
    We read to know we're not alone.
    “We read to know we're not alone.”
    William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

  • #16
    Jean-Michel Basquiat
    “Pay For Soup/Build A Fort/Set That On Fire”
    Jean-Michel Basquiat

  • #17
    Angelus Silesius
    “The Rose is without an explanation; She Blooms because She Blooms.”
    Angelus Silesius, The Cherubinic Wanderer

  • #18
    J.D. Salinger
    “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #19
    A.J. Liebling
    “People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

    AJ Liebling

  • #20
    A.J. Liebling
    “I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and i can write faster than anybody who can write better.”
    A.J. Liebling
    tags: humor

  • #21
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #22
    Susan Sontag
    “Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading.”
    Susan Sontag

  • #23
    Maggie Nelson
    “Empirically speaking, we are made of star stuff. Why aren’t we talking more about that?”
    Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts

  • #24
    James Baldwin
    “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
    James Baldwin

  • #25
    Mary Gaitskill
    “My ambition was to live like music.”
    Mary Gaitskill

  • #26
    Yōko Tawada
    “I always feel myself being thrust back into loneliness when someone tells me it's cold on a hot day. It isn't good to talk so much about the weather — weather is a highly personal matter, and communication on the subject inevitably fails.”
    Yōko Tawada, Memoirs of a Polar Bear

  • #27
    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #28
    Susan Sontag
    “Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.”
    Susan Sontag

  • #29
    Bernie Sanders
    “The problems we face, did not come down from the heavens. They are made, they are made by bad human decisions, and good human decisions can change them.”
    Bernie Sanders

  • #30
    Adam Platt
    “And at a fruit boutique called Atelier du Soleil, one beautifully proportioned mango was selling for the equivalent of one hundred dollars. "That's not your average supermarket mango," one Tokyo fruit connoisseur told me. "That mango will change your mind forever about mangoes. That mango will blow your damn mind!”
    Adam Platt



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