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  • #1
    Dylan Thomas
    “Do not go gentle into that good night.
    Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
    Dylan Thomas, In Country Sleep, and Other Poems

  • #2
    Thomas Jefferson
    “The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”
    Thomas Jefferson

  • #3
    Thomas Jefferson
    “I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
    Thomas Jefferson

  • #4
    Arundhati Roy
    “That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”
    Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

  • #5
    Vikram Seth
    “But I too hate long books: the better, the worse. If they're bad they merely make me pant with the effort of holding them up for a few minutes. But if they're good, I turn into a social moron for days, refusing to go out of my room, scowling and growling at interruptions, ignoring weddings and funerals, and making enemies out of friends. I still bear the scars of Middlemarch.”
    Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy

  • #6
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #7
    Richard Dawkins
    “In the beginning was simplicity.”
    Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene

  • #8
    Richard Dawkins
    “You can make some inferences about a man's character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.”
    Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene

  • #9
    Nicholas Sparks
    “Without suffering, there'd be no compassion.”
    Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember

  • #10
    Seneca
    “And so there is no reason for you to think that any man has lived long because he has grey hairs or wrinkles, he has not lived long – he has existed long. For what if you should think that man had had a long voyage who had been caught by a fierce storm as soon as he left harbour, and, swept hither and thither by a succession of winds that raged from different quarters, had been driven in a circle around the same course? Not much voyaging did he have, but much tossing about.”
    Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It

  • #11
    Mary Oliver
    “A poem should always have birds in it.”
    Mary Oliver, House of Light

  • #12
    William Blake
    “If a thing loves, it is infinite.”
    William Blake

  • #13
    C. JoyBell C.
    “You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever.... connections are made with the heart, not the tongue.”
    C. JoyBell C.

  • #14
    C. JoyBell C.
    “If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate.”
    C. JoyBell C.

  • #15
    Voltaire
    “‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
    Voltaire

  • #16
    Jean Rhys
    “I had two longings and one was fighting the other. I wanted to be loved and I wanted to be always alone.”
    Jean Rhys

  • #17
    Socrates
    “If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.”
    Socrates

  • #18
    Stephen  King
    “A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over Hamlet every time. Any fool with steady hands and a working set of lungs can build up a house of cards and then blow it down, but it takes a genius to make people laugh.”
    Stephen King

  • #19
    Dr. Seuss
    “Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
    Dr. Seuss, Happy Birthday to You!

  • #20
    Winston S. Churchill
    “An old battleax of a woman said to Winston Churchill, "If you were my husband I would put poison in your tea." Churchill's response, "Ma'am if you were my wife I would drink it.”
    Winston S. Churchill

  • #21
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.”
    Winston Churchill

  • #22
    Winston S. Churchill
    “If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them – peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that if you do not know what is in them, you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them at any rate be your acquaintances. If they cannot enter the circle of your life, do not deny them at least a nod of recognition.”
    Winston S. Churchill, Painting As a Pastime

  • #23
    Winston S. Churchill
    “My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me”
    Winston S. Churchill



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