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  • #1
    Anne Brontë
    “It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.”
    Anne Brontë

  • #2
    Stendhal
    “One can acquire everything in solitude except character.”
    Stendhal, Five Short Novels of Stendhal

  • #3
    Paul Auster
    “Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
    Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

  • #4
    Johnny Cash
    “All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.”
    Johnny Cash

  • #5
    L. Frank Baum
    “No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.”
    L. Frank Baum, The Lost Princess of Oz

  • #6
    Anita Desai
    “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”
    Anita Desai

  • #7
    Jhumpa Lahiri
    “That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
    Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

  • #8
    Henry Green
    “The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.”
    Henry Green

  • #9
    Jack Kerouac
    “Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.”
    Jack Kerouac

  • #10
    Tennessee Williams
    “If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.”
    Tennessee Williams, Conversations With Tennessee Williams

  • #11
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “We loved with a love that was more than love.”
    Edgar Allen Poe

  • #12
    Anthony Burgess
    “Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.”
    anthony burgess

  • #13
    Ismail Kadare
    “It was only a phrase that went from mouth to mouth and was never quite swallowed.”
    Ismail Kadare, Broken April

  • #14
    Annie Dillard
    “She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”
    Annie Dillard, The Living

  • #15
    Gary Paulsen
    “I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.”
    Gary Paulsen, Shelf Life: Stories by the Book

  • #16
    Owen Wister
    “Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader...”
    Owen Wister, The Virginian



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