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A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Speech in New York, Nov. 20, 1900
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Speech in New York, Nov. 20, 1900

--Steinbeck, "The Grapes of Wrath"

"The Truth About Forever" by Sarah Dessen

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature nor do the children of men, as a whole, experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."
Hellen Keller
"Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go."
Goethe

From 'Garden of Eden' by Ernest Hemingway, spoken by the character Catherine.

From Gorgias - Socrates to Polus.

The opening paragraph to Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House .

"I help because that is who I am." -Contact Harvest, Joseph Staten
Tom Clancy
" Perfect is a pain in the ass and usually not worth the effort".
" Perfect is a pain in the ass and usually not worth the effort".

~Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night A Traveler
I couldn't have said it better myself, Mr. Calvino...

Margaret Lea a character in the Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield.

— Mark Twain

I have a whole text-file of my favorite quotes from Bartlett's, but since I just finished Lord of Light, I felt I had to put down my favorite quote from the book.

--John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire

"Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Those who do not do it, think of it as a cousin of stamp collecting, a sister of the trophy cabinet, bastard of a sound bank account and a weak mind." — Jeanette Winterson

I know it's not a book but it's hilarious. And I live this life!

grizzlies' territory, we must accept the fact that the grizzlies,
from time to time, will harvest a few trespassers."
— Edward Abbey


-Joan Smith, Escapade

— Terry Pratchett

The sullen wind was soon awake,
It tore the elm-tops down for spite,
And did its best to vex the lake:
I listened with heart fit to break."
— Robert Browning

Runemarks-Joanne Harris

Stephanie Meyer in an interview




"Give people the benefit of the doubt until they give you a reason not to."

ERASMUS" thats why I've got it on my profile,
however there are so many others i really like like this one from Oscar Wilde
"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."

Maria Theresia of Austria to her daughter Maria Antonia, known as Marie Antoinette in April 1770
I hope my translation is okay


— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

This one makes me chuckle every time I read it...
"To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. Music soothes, the visual arts exhilarate, and the performing arts (such as acting and dance) entertain. Literature, however, retreats from life by turning it into a slumber. The other arts make no such retreat— some because they use visible and hence vital formulas, others because they live from human life itself.
This isn't the case with literature. Literature simulates life. A novel is a story of what never was, and a play is a novel without narration. A poem is the expression of ideas or feelings in a language no one uses, because no one talks in verse."
Fernando Pessoa <3 from "The Book of Disquiet"
This isn't the case with literature. Literature simulates life. A novel is a story of what never was, and a play is a novel without narration. A poem is the expression of ideas or feelings in a language no one uses, because no one talks in verse."
Fernando Pessoa <3 from "The Book of Disquiet"

Every child scrawling his first letters on his slate and attempting to read for the first time, in so doing, enters an artificial and most complicated world; to know the laws and rules of this world completely and to practice them perfectly, no single human life is long enough.
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
Hermann Hesse

Steven Preece "
I have to say this is one of my favs. I have to find some of the others and post them some time.
"I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind."
Emily Bronte
Emily Bronte
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