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  • #1
    Albert Camus
    “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
    Albert Camus

  • #2
    Albert Camus
    “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
    Albert Camus

  • #3
    Charles Bukowski
    “Do you hate people?”

    “I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
    Charles Bukowski, Barfly

  • #4
    Deepak Chopra
    “Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.”
    Deepak Chopra

  • #5
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #6
    Joe Abercrombie
    “I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn is to stop making them.”
    Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

  • #7
    Jack Kerouac
    “One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
    Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

  • #8
    Stephen  King
    “Get busy living or get busy dying.”
    Stephen King, Different Seasons

  • #9
    C.M. Spivey
    “In a way, the books were protection.
    An escape she would always have access to.
    A sanctuary, there for when she needed it.”
    Cait Spivey, From Under the Mountain

  • #10
    T.H. White
    “The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.”
    T.H. White, The Once and Future King

  • #11
    Toni Morrison
    “You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
    Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

  • #12
    T.H. White
    “We cannot build the future by avenging the past.”
    T.H. White, The Once and Future King

  • #13
    T.H. White
    “Everything not forbidden is compulsory”
    T.H. White, The Once and Future King

  • #14
    Erica Jong
    “It was easy enough to kill yourself in a fit of despair. It was easy enough to play the martyr. It was harder to do nothing. To endure your life. To wait.”
    Erica Jong, Fear of Flying

  • #15
    John Hodgman
    “Stories make sense when so much around us is senseless, and perhaps what makes them most comforting is that while life goes on and pain goes on, stories do us the favor of ending.”
    John Hodgman

  • #16
    Erica Jong
    “Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.”
    Erica Jong, Fear of Flying

  • #17
    Stephen  King
    “I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud. ”
    Stephen King



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