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“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky

“Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.”
― Allen Ginsberg

“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey

“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
― E. B. White

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is the way you can both hate and love something you are not sure you understand.”
― Dorothy Allison, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure

“Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.”
― Anne Lamott

“Laugh all you want and cry all you want and whistle at pretty men in the street and to hell with anybody who thinks you're a damned fool!”
― Armistead Maupin, More Tales of the City

“In the world I am
Always a stranger
I do not understand its language
It does not understand my silence”
― Bei Dao

“Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.”
― Herman Wouk

“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake

“The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even—if you will—eccentricity.”
― Joseph Brodsky

“The mountains are calling and I must go.”
― John Muir

“Housework can look like a Sisyphean task that gives you no sense of reward or completion .”
― Cheryl Mendelson, Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House