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  • #1
    Agatha Christie
    “Words, madmoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.”
    Agatha Christie, The A.B.C. Murders

  • #2
    Bertrand Russell
    “Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
    Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

  • #3
    Julio Cortázar
    “...y se corría a ochenta kilómetros por hora hacia las luces que crecían poco a poco, sin que ya se supiera bien por qué tanto apuro, por qué esa carrera en la noche entre autos desconocidos donde nadie sabía nada de los otros, donde todo el mundo miraba fijamente hacia adelante, exclusivamente hacia adelante.”
    Julio Cortázar, Todos los fuegos el fuego

  • #4
    Mario Benedetti
    “Viceversa"
    Tengo miedo de verte
    necesidad de verte
    esperanza de verte
    desazones de verte

    tengo ganas de hallarte
    preocupación de hallarte
    certidumbre de hallarte
    pobres dudas de hallarte

    tengo urgencia de oírte
    alegría de oírte
    buena suerte de oírte
    y temores de oírte

    o sea
    resumiendo
    estoy jodido
    y radiante
    quizás más lo primero
    que lo segundo
    y también
    viceversa.”
    Mario Benedetti

  • #5
    “...writers are a savage breed, Mr. Strike. If you want life-long friendship and selfless camaraderie, join the army and learn to kill. If you want a lifetime of temporary alliances with peers who will glory in your every failure, write novels.”
    Robert Galbraith, The Silkworm

  • #6
    Quino
    “No es necesario decir todo lo que se piensa; lo que sí es necesario es pensar todo lo que se dice.”
    Quino

  • #7
    Fran Lebowitz
    “A book is not supposed to be a mirror. It's supposed to be a door.”
    Fran Lebowitz

  • #8
    Virginia Woolf
    “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
    Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

  • #9
    Dorothy L. Sayers
    “I sleuth, you know. For a hobby. Harmless outlet for natural inquisitiveness, don't you see, which might otherwise strike inward and produce introspection an' suicide. Very natural, healthy pursuit -- not too strenuous, not too sedentary; trains and invigorates the mind.”
    Dorothy L. Sayers, Unnatural Death

  • #10
    Groucho Marx
    “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
    Groucho Marx

  • #11
    Lemony Snicket
    “It is most likely that I will die next to a pile of books I was meaning to read.”
    Lemony Snicket

  • #12
    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
    “Too much sanity is madness. The greatest madness of all is to see the world as it is, and not as it should be.”
    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de La Mancha

  • #13
    Lord Byron
    “A drop of ink may make a million think.”
    George Gordon Byron

  • #14
    George Carlin
    “Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time!

    But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money!”
    George Carlin

  • #15
    Stuart MacBride
    “Steel squared her shoulders. "Ladies, and gentlemen, are are no' at home to Mr Fuckup today. Who are we no' at home to?"

    The response wasn't much more than an embarrassed murmur. "Mr Fuckup."

    "I CAN'T HEAR YOU! WHO ARE WE NO' AT HOME TO?"

    Better this time: "Mr Fuckup."

    "ONE MORE TIME!"

    They bellowed it out: "WE ARE NOT AT HOME TO MR FUCKUP!"

    "Damn right we're no'." She smiled, nodded. "Now get out there and catch me those bloody killers.”
    Stuart MacBride, Close to the Bone

  • #16
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
    Arthur Conan Doyle, The Boscombe Valley Mystery - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

  • #17
    Flannery O'Connor
    “Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”
    Flannery O'Connor



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