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  • #1
    Woody Allen
    “I think crime pays. The hours are good, you travel a lot”
    Woody Allen

  • #2
    Mary McCarthy
    “Every word she writes is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’."
    (on Lillian Hellman)”
    Mary McCarthy

  • #3
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma”
    Winston S. Churchill, The Gathering Storm

  • #4
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
    Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

  • #5
    David Foster Wallace
    “I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.”
    David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

  • #6
    Joseph Conrad
    “Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.”
    Joseph Conrad, Chance

  • #7
    Jane Austen
    “A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #8
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #9
    Oscar Wilde
    “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

  • #10
    Thomas Szasz
    “Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.”
    Thomas Szasz

  • #11
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.”
    Eleanor Roosevelt

  • #12
    Théophile Gautier
    “Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign.”
    Théophile Gautier

  • #13
    Billy Sunday
    “Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.”
    Billy Sunday, "Billy" Sunday, the man and his message: with his own words which have won thousands for Christ

  • #14
    Groucho Marx
    “When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'.”
    Groucho Marx

  • #15
    J.K. Rowling
    “The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • #16
    Douglas Adams
    “For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  • #17
    David Ogilvy
    “The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.”
    David M. Ogilvy

  • #18
    Anne R. Allen
    “I'm a novelist. Anything you say can be taken down and used against you in a work of fiction.”
    Anne R. Allen

  • #19
    Voltaire
    “‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
    Voltaire

  • #20
    Ashleigh Brilliant
    “My life has a superb cast, but I can't figure out the plot.”
    Ashleigh Brilliant

  • #21
    Ashleigh Brilliant
    “Words are a wonderful form of communication, but they will never replace kisses and punches.”
    Ashleigh Brilliant

  • #22
    Dave Eggers
    “Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”
    Dave Eggers

  • #23
    John Updike
    “It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.”
    John Updike, My Father's Tears and Other Stories

  • #24
    Kingsley Amis
    “If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.”
    Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim

  • #25
    George Carlin
    “May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.”
    George Carlin

  • #26
    Gregory Maguire
    “Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny.”
    Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

  • #27
    René Char
    “I believe in the magic and authority of words.”
    René Char

  • #28
    Erich Segal
    “True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.”
    Erich Segal

  • #29
    H. Rider Haggard
    “Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.”
    H. Rider Haggard, She

  • #30
    Luigi Pirandello
    “Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.”
    Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author



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