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  • #1
    Arturo Pérez-Reverte
    “Never trust a man who reads only one book.”
    Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Purity of Blood

  • #2
    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    Bernard M. Baruch

  • #3
    Natalie Babbitt
    “Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.”
    Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

  • #4
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
    Søren Kierkegaard

  • #5
    Henry Ward Beecher
    “Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
    Henry Ward Beecherr

  • #6
    Edgar Degas
    “Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.”
    Edgar Degas

  • #7
    Niels Bohr
    “An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
    Niels Bohr

  • #8
    Lewis Carroll
    “Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

  • #9
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

  • #10
    Gwendolyn Brooks
    “Live not for Battles Won.
    Live not for The-End-of-the-Song.
    Live in the along.”
    Gwendolyn Brooks, Report from Part One

  • #11
    E.L. Doctorow
    “Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
    E.L. Doctorow

  • #12
    Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
    “To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.”
    Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Aphorisms

  • #13
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.”
    Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination

  • #14
    Zig Ziglar
    “Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.”
    Zig Ziglar, Raising Positive Kids in a Negative World

  • #15
    Edward Albee
    “You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?”
    Edward Albee

  • #16
    Joseph Campbell
    “Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”
    Joseph Campbell

  • #17
    Eudora Welty
    “All serious daring starts from within.”
    Eudora Welty, On Writing

  • #18
    Richard P. Feynman
    “Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”
    Richard P. Feynman

  • #19
    Edith Wharton
    “My little old dog
    a heart-beat
    at my feet”
    Edith Wharton

  • #20
    Mary Oliver
    “Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.”
    Mary Oliver

  • #21
    A.J. Cronin
    “Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.”
    A.J. Cronin

  • #22
    Christopher Paolini
    “Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?”
    Christopher Paolini

  • #23
    Bill Nye
    “Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.”
    Bill Nye

  • #24
    Ashleigh Brilliant
    “My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.”
    Ashleigh Brilliant

  • #25
    Selma Lagerlöf
    “Nothing on earth can make up for the loss of one who has loved you.”
    Selma Lagerlöf

  • #26
    Gustave Flaubert
    “Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.”
    Gustave Flaubert

  • #27
    “We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”
    Stephen Hawking

  • #28
    Nicholson Baker
    “I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.”
    Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist

  • #29
    Eddie Huang
    “I think my mom is manic, but Chinese people don't believe in psychologists. We just drink more tea when things go bad. Sometimes I agree; I think we're all over diagnosed.”
    Eddie Huang, Fresh Off the Boat

  • #30
    James Baldwin
    “Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”
    James A. Baldwin



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