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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Imagining something is better than remembering something.”
― John Irving, The World According to Garp

“The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.”
― V. S. Naipaul, In a Free State

“Resist much, obey little.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

“Psychopaths... people who know the differences between right and wrong, but don't give a shit. That's what most of my characters are like.”
― Elmore Leonard

“[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road