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  • #1
    Gregory Maguire
    “People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.”
    Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

  • #2
    Anne Frank
    “It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
    Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

  • #3
    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

  • #4
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #5
    Terry Pratchett
    “Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
    Terry Pratchett, Jingo

  • #6
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #7
    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #8
    William Faulkner
    “We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”
    William Faulkner, Essays, Speeches & Public Letters

  • #9
    Glen Cook
    “Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.”
    Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues

  • #10
    J.K. Rowling
    “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

  • #11
    William Goldman
    “Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”
    William Goldman, Four Screenplays with Essays: Marathon Man - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - The Princess Bride - Misery

  • #12
    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

  • #13
    Diane Duane
    “Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”
    Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard

  • #14
    George S. Patton Jr.
    “If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.”
    George S. Patton

  • #15
    Oscar Wilde
    “After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.”
    Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

  • #16
    Khaled Hosseini
    “But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
    Khaled Hosseini

  • #17
    Roald Amundsen
    “Adventure is just bad planning.”
    Roald Amundsen

  • #18
    Lord Byron
    “And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.”
    George Gordon Byron

  • #19
    Donald E. Westlake
    “Nobody gets everything in this life. You decide your priorities and you make your choices. I'd decided long ago that any cake I had would be eaten.”
    Donald E. Westlake, Two Much

  • #20
    Annie Proulx
    “You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
    Annie Proulx

  • #21
    Richard Price
    “You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road.”
    Richard Price

  • #22
    Mario Puzo
    “I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.”
    Mario Puzo, The Godfather

  • #23
    Anne Tyler
    “I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
    Anne Tyler

  • #24
    Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
    “Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #25
    Clare Boothe Luce
    “Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.”
    Clare Boothe Luce

  • #26
    Frederick Douglass
    “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
    Frederick Douglass

  • #27
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #28
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien



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