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  • #1
    C.S. Lewis
    “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #2
    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    Bernard M. Baruch

  • #3
    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

  • #4
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #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
    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

  • #7
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Imitation is suicide.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #8
    Ally Condie
    “You cannot change your journey if you are unwilling to move at all.”
    Ally Condie, Reached

  • #9
    Mary  Stewart
    “I doubt if there are many normal women who can resist looking at houses. I believe, in fact, that when a house is up for sale more than half the people who look over it are not prospective buyers, but merely ladies who cannot resist exploring someone else's house.”
    Mary Stewart, The Stormy Petrel

  • #10
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    Mae West

  • #11
    Emily Giffin
    “Maybe the thing to do after you roll the dice-and lose-is simply pick them up and roll them again.”
    Emily Giffin, Something Borrowed

  • #12
    Victor Hugo
    “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
    Victor Hugo

  • #13
    Aldous Huxley
    “After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
    Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other Essays

  • #14
    Victor Hugo
    “Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”
    Victor Hugo, William Shakespeare

  • #15
    Maya Angelou
    “Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances. ”
    Maya Angelou

  • #16
    Wilkie Collins
    “I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant noise.”
    Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

  • #17
    Wilkie Collins
    “The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest species of literary exertion, and that novel reading was a dangerous luxury and an utter waste of time.”
    Wilkie Collins, My Miscellanies

  • #18
    Wilkie Collins
    “The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not found out.”
    Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

  • #19
    Wilkie Collins
    “My business in life is to eat, drink, sleep, and die. Everything else is superfluity and I will have none of it. ”
    Wilkie Collins, The Dead Secret

  • #20
    Wilkie Collins
    “There are three things that none of the young men of the present generation can do.They can't sit over their wine;they can't play at wist;and they can't pay a lady a compliment.”
    Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
    tags: humor, men

  • #21
    Wilkie Collins
    “We had our breakfasts--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast.”
    Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone
    tags: humor

  • #22
    Wilkie Collins
    “Dont speak of tomorrow.Let the music speak to us tonight,in a happier language than ours.”
    Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
    tags: music

  • #23
    Wilkie Collins
    “Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.”
    Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

  • #24
    Wilkie Collins
    “Silence is safe.”
    Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

  • #25
    Wilkie Collins
    “Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.”
    Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

  • #26
    Wilkie Collins
    “My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.”
    Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

  • #27
    Wilkie Collins
    “The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!”
    Wilkie Collins, Armadale

  • #28
    Wilkie Collins
    “The English intellect is sound, so far as it goes,but it has one grave defect--it is always cautious in the wrong place.”
    Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

  • #29
    Robert Frost
    “A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
    Robert Frost



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