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  • #1
    Terry Pratchett
    “If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.”
    Terry Pratchett

  • #2
    Terry Pratchett
    “Blessings be on this house," Granny said, perfunctorily. It was always a good opening remark for a witch. It concentrated people's minds on what other things might be on this house.”
    Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad

  • #3
    Terry Pratchett
    “There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do.”
    Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

  • #4
    Terry Pratchett
    “Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like a
    red flag to a bu... was like putting something very annoying in front of
    someone who was annoyed by it.”
    Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

  • #5
    Terry Pratchett
    “What's a philosopher?' said Brutha.
    Someone who's bright enough to find a job with no heavy lifting,' said a voice in his head.”
    Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

  • #6
    Terry Pratchett
    “The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.”
    Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment

  • #7
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #8
    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

  • #9
    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    Mark Twain

  • #10
    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    Mark Twain

  • #11
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

  • #12
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #13
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
    Madeleine L'Engle

  • #14
    Terry Pratchett
    “The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
    Terry Pratchett, Diggers

  • #15
    Anaïs Nin
    “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
    Anaïs Nin

  • #16
    C.S. Lewis
    “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #17
    Oscar Wilde
    “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #18
    Henry David Thoreau
    “I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
    Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

  • #19
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #20
    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    Neil Gaiman, Coraline

  • #21
    Terry Pratchett
    “Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”
    Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

  • #22
    Mike Reeves-McMillan
    “The wrong thing being?” asks Halwaz.
    “Closing up their source, of course,” you say, in a tone which implies, “Did you think I was merely talking about their sacrificing small fuzzy animals in an attempt to bring back ancient evil gods?”
    Mike Reeves-McMillan, Gu

  • #23
    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

  • #24
    Robin Sloan
    “After that, the book will fade, the way all books fade in your mind. But I hope you will remember this:
    A man walking fast down a dark lonely street. Quick steps and hard breathing, all wonder and need. A bell above a door and the tinkle it makes. A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time.”
    Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

  • #25
    Robin Sloan
    “Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.”
    Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

  • #26
    Robin Sloan
    “Neel takes a sharp breath and I know exactly what it means. It means: I have waited my whole life to walk through a secret passage built into a bookshelf.
    Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

  • #27
    Robin Sloan
    “Your life must be an open city, with all sorts of ways to wander in.”
    Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

  • #28
    Robin Sloan
    “Kat bought a New York Times but couldn’t figure out how to operate it, so now she’s fiddling with her phone.”
    Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

  • #29
    Robin Sloan
    “He has the strangest expression on his face- the emotional equivalent of 404 PAGE NOT FOUND.”
    Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

  • #30
    Robin Sloan
    “If this sounds impressive to you, you’re over thirty.”
    Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore



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