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Thomas Pynchon
“Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.”
Thomas Pynchon
Tamora Pierce
“Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.”
Tamora Pierce, Lady Knight
Paulo Coelho
“People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.”
Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Katherine Mansfield
“The mind I love must have wild places.”
Katherine Mansfield
Jennifer Egan
“I'm always happy," Sasha said. "Sometimes I just forget.”
Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Mahatma Gandhi
“To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Philip Pullman
“We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.”
Philip Pullman
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Veronica Roth
“I feel like someone breathed new air into my lungs. I am not Abnegation. I am not Dauntless.
I am Divergent.”
Veronica Roth, Divergent
Napoleon Hill
“The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.”
Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich
Friedrich Nietzsche
“The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”
Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Gabriel García Márquez
“sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love”
Gabriel García Márquez
Paulo Coelho
“We are travelers on a cosmic journey,stardust,swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share.This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.”
Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Jonathan Safran Foer
“I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.”
Jonathan Safran Foer
Ken Kesey
“Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.”
Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Pablo Picasso
“Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. ”
Pablo Picasso, Pablo Picasso: Metamorphoses of the Human Form : Graphic Works, 1895-1972
“to live in this world

you must be able
to do three things
to love what is mortal;
to hold it

against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go”
Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems, Volume One
Maya Angelou
“If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?”
Maya Angelou
Lemony Snicket
“The sad truth is the truth is sad.”
Lemony Snicket, The Hostile Hospital
Marvin Bell
“Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.”
Marvin Bell
Stephen Chbosky
“I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that I don’t know if anyone else ever has.”
Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Neil Gaiman
“Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.”
Neil Gaiman, Coraline
Leo Tolstoy
“If you want to be happy, be.”
Leo Tolstory
Mae West
“When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better. ”
Mae West
Roy T. Bennett
“Help others without any reason and give without the expectation of receiving anything in return.”
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
Joseph Conrad
“It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.”
Joseph Conrad, An Outcast of the Islands
Hayley Williams
“Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand”
Hayley Williams
Dr. Seuss
“I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.”
Dr. Seuss
Elizabeth Gilbert
“To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced
life.”
Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything