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  • #1
    Mark Twain
    “When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
    Mark Twain

  • #2
    Thomas Paine
    “To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.”
    Thomas Paine, The American Crisis

  • #3
    Irvine Welsh
    “You can't lie to your soul.”
    Irvine Welsh, Porno

  • #4
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
    Madeleine L'Engle

  • #5
    Lemony Snicket
    “Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
    Lemony Snicket

  • #6
    Elizabeth Moon
    “Sometimes I wonder how normal normal people are, and I wonder that most in the grocery store.”
    Elizabeth Moon, The Speed of Dark

  • #7
    Alice Hoffman
    “Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.”
    Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

  • #8
    Ben Okri
    “The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”
    Ben Okri

  • #9
    Allen Ginsberg
    “I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view. ”
    Allen Ginsberg

  • #10
    Mario Vargas Llosa
    “One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.”
    Mario Vargas Llosa, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

  • #11
    Giacomo Casanova
    “Be the flame, not the moth.”
    Giacomo Casanova

  • #12
    Vince Flynn
    “It was war, and in war the truth was almost always the first casualty.”
    Vince Flynn, Executive Power

  • #13
    H.L. Mencken
    “I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.”
    H.L. Mencken

  • #14
    Bruno Schulz
    “My ideal goal is to "mature" into childhood. That would be genuine maturity.”
    Bruno Schulz

  • #15
    Lydia Cacho
    “I've never wanted a quiet life.”
    Lydia Cacho

  • #16
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • #17
    Corrie ten Boom
    “Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.”
    Corrie Ten Boom

  • #18
    Kingsley Amis
    “If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.”
    Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim

  • #19
    George Carlin
    “May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.”
    George Carlin

  • #20
    Douglas Preston
    “We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind.”
    Douglas Preston, The Monster of Florence

  • #21
    Jodi Picoult
    “Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.”
    Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

  • #22
    Gary Paulsen
    “I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.”
    Gary Paulsen, Shelf Life: Stories by the Book

  • #23
    Carol Shields
    “Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.”
    Carol Shields

  • #24
    Erich Segal
    “True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.”
    Erich Segal

  • #25
    René Char
    “I believe in the magic and authority of words.”
    René Char

  • #26
    James M. Cain
    “If your writing doesn't keep you up at night, it won't keep anyone else up either”
    James M. Cain

  • #27
    Jean Craighead George
    “Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.”
    Jean Craighead George, My Side of the Mountain

  • #28
    Ian McEwan
    “When it's gone, you'll know what a gift love was. You'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.”
    Ian McEwan, Enduring Love

  • #29
    Owen Wister
    “Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader...”
    Owen Wister, The Virginian

  • #30
    Harsha Bhogle
    “The moment you put a deadline on your dream, it becomes a goal.”
    Harsha Bhogle, The Winning Way: Learnings from sport for managers



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