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  • #1
    Iris Murdoch
    “Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.”
    Iris Murdoch, Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature

  • #2
    Irving Stone
    “There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.”
    Irving Stone, Clarence Darrow for the Defense

  • #3
    William Makepeace Thackeray
    “Good humor may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society.”
    William Makepeace Thackeray, Sketches and Travels, Etc.

  • #4
    Cormac McCarthy
    “You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
    Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

  • #5
    S.E. Hinton
    “I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”
    S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

  • #6
    Alexandre Dumas
    “Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.”
    Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

  • #7
    Aldous Huxley
    “Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
    Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

  • #8
    Juliet Marillier
    “If a man has to say trust me, Gogu conveyed, it's a sure sign you cannot. Trust him, that is. Trust is a thing you know without words.”
    Juliet Marillier, Wildwood Dancing

  • #9
    The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.
    “The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.”
    William H. Gass, A Temple of Texts

  • #10
    Herman Melville
    “A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.”
    Herman Melville, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities

  • #11
    James Baldwin
    “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
    James Baldwin

  • #12
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
    Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
    Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias

  • #13
    Alfred Tennyson
    “I am a part of all that I have met.”
    Alfred Tennyson, The Complete Poetical Works of Tennyson

  • #14
    Pablo Picasso
    “Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.”
    Pablo Picasso

  • #15
    Val McDermid
    “That was the trouble with moving houses; no matter how carefully you packed the books, they never ended up on the new shelves in quite the right place.”
    Val McDermid, The Torment of Others
    tags: books

  • #16
    Val McDermid
    “Time for the likeliest story since Mary told Joseph it was God’s.”
    Val McDermid

  • #17
    Val McDermid
    “He frowned as he struggled to remember. It was like watching an elephant crochet.”
    Val McDermid, Kick Back
    tags: humor

  • #18
    Stuart MacBride
    “Finnie kicked a packet of washing powder. "Why am I surrounded by morons? Did I tick the wrong bloody box for room service? I wanted scrambled eggs on toast, but they delivered a family-sized bag of idiots!”
    Stuart MacBride, Blind Eye

  • #19
    Stuart MacBride
    “Blah, blah, blah, regret to inform you that DI Gray has tendered his resignation; blah, blah, blah; opportunity to reward performance; blah, blah, blah; suggestions by next Wednesday.

    McPherson had scribbled, "BEATTIE?" in the margin in red biro.

    Idiot.

    Logan stuck the memo back in the drawer. Detective Sergeant Beattie couldn't arrest his own backside with three patrol cars and a search warrant.”
    Stuart MacBride, Blind Eye

  • #20
    W. Somerset Maugham
    “There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
    W. Somerset Maugham

  • #21
    Sophocles
    “Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.”
    Sophocles

  • #22
    William Goldman
    “Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”
    William Goldman, Four Screenplays with Essays: Marathon Man - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - The Princess Bride - Misery

  • #23
    Pablo Neruda
    “I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
    in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
    Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

  • #24
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”
    Søren Kierkegaard , The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin

  • #25
    Ted Hughes
    “The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't live boldly enough, that they didn't invest enough heart, didn't love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.”
    Ted Hughes, Letters of Ted Hughes

  • #26
    Ogden Nash
    “A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.”
    Ogden Nash, The Private Dining-room and Other Verses
    tags: dog, door

  • #27
    H.P. Lovecraft
    “From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.”
    H.P. Lovecraft, Tales of H.P. Lovecraft

  • #28
    Audre Lorde
    “Your silence will not protect you.”
    Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

  • #29
    Ray Bradbury
    “I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
    Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

  • #30
    Frank McCourt
    “You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
    Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes



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