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  • #1
    Aldous Huxley
    “But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
    Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

  • #2
    Aldous Huxley
    “If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.”
    Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

  • #3
    Aldous Huxley
    “I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.”
    Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

  • #4
    Aldous Huxley
    “One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.”
    Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

  • #5
    Aldous Huxley
    “Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.”
    Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

  • #6
    John Green
    “Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.”
    John Green

  • #7
    John Green
    “because nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff. Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can’t-control-yourself love it. Hank, when people call people nerds, mostly what they’re saying is ‘you like stuff.’ Which is just not a good insult at all. Like, ‘you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human consciousness’.”
    John Green

  • #8
    Ned Vizzini
    “I don't know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time.”
    Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

  • #9
    Ned Vizzini
    “People are screwed up in this world. I'd rather be with someone screwed up and open about it than somebody perfect and ready to explode.”
    Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

  • #10
    J.D. Salinger
    “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #11
    J.D. Salinger
    “I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #12
    I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.
    “I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #13
    J.D. Salinger
    “I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #14
    J.D. Salinger
    “People never notice anything.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #15
    George Orwell
    “Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #16
    George Orwell
    “The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.”
    George Orwell, In Front of Your Nose: 1945-1950

  • #17
    George Orwell
    “Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.”
    George Orwell

  • #18
    Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
    “Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #19
    Ray Bradbury
    “Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?"
    "Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you.”
    Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

  • #20
    Ray Bradbury
    “Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.”
    Ray Bradbury

  • #21
    “no measure of tine with you will be long enough but lets start with forever”
    Stephanie Meyer

  • #22
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #23
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #24
    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    William W. Purkey

  • #25
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    Mark Twain

  • #26
    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #27
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #28
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #29
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

  • #30
    Margaret Atwood
    “Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
    Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale



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