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  • #1
    Lao Tzu
    “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
    Lao Tzu

  • #2
    Anna Quindlen
    “Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
    Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

  • #3
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #4
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Life is a journey, not a destination.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #5
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
    Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

  • #6
    Jim  Butcher
    “Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar”
    Jim Butcher, Dead Beat

  • #7
    Hunter S. Thompson
    “Good people drink good beer.”
    Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

  • #8
    Heraclitus
    “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.”
    Heraclitus

  • #9
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “The only journey is the one within.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke

  • #10
    Leo Tolstoy
    “All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.”
    Leo Tolstoy

  • #11
    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

  • #12
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
    Kurt Vonnegut

  • #13
    Charles Bukowski
    “Do you hate people?”

    “I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
    Charles Bukowski, Barfly

  • #14
    Oscar Wilde
    “To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #15
    Douglas Adams
    “The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  • #16
    Lawrence Ferlinghetti
    “If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.”
    Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  • #17
    Ray Bradbury
    “I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
    Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

  • #18
    Peter Ustinov
    “I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.”
    Peter Ustinov

  • #19
    Oscar Wilde
    “A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

  • #20
    James Thurber
    “Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.”
    James Thurber

  • #21
    Nell Dixon
    “Leave any problem alone for long enough and it will solve itself.”
    Nell Dixon

  • #22
    William Makepeace Thackeray
    “Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.”
    William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

  • #23
    Hugh Laurie
    “This was the tricky bit. The really tricky bit, trickiness cubed.”
    Hugh Laurie, The Gun Seller

  • #24
    Honoré de Balzac
    “Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.”
    Honore de Balzac

  • #25
    Fernando Pessoa
    “Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.”
    Fernando Pessoa, Collected Later Poems of Alvaro de Campos: 1928-1935

  • #26
    Oscar Wilde
    “He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.”
    Oscar Wilde, A House of Pomegranates

  • #27
    Anne Frank
    “I've learned one thing: you can only really get to know a person after a row. Only then can you judge their true character!”
    Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

  • #28
    Mark Twain
    “Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.”
    Mark Twain

  • #29
    Shirley Temple Black
    “I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.”
    Shirley Temple Black

  • #30
    “He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he's miserable and depressed.”
    David Frost



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