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  • #1
    Jane Austen
    “I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #2
    Pablo Picasso
    “Everything you can imagine is real.”
    Pablo Picasso

  • #3
    Raymond Carver
    “I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.”
    Raymond Carver

  • #4
    Sylvia Plath
    “Is there no way out of the mind?”
    Sylvia Plath

  • #5
    Alexander Pope
    “How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!
    The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
    Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
    Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d”
    Alexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard

  • #6
    Jane Austen
    “I have not the pleasure of understanding you.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #7
    W.H. Auden
    “For poetry makes nothing happen: it survives
    In the valley of its making where executives
    Would never want to tamper, flows on south
    From ranches of isolation and the busy griefs,
    Raw towns that we believe and die in; it survives,
    A way of happening, a mouth.”
    W.H. Auden

  • #8
    Andy Warhol
    “I like boring things.”
    Andy Warhol

  • #9
    Criss Jami
    “Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.”
    Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

  • #10
    Susan Sontag
    “My library is an archive of longings.”
    Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

  • #11
    Lemony Snicket
    “The world is quiet here.”
    Lemony Snicket

  • #12
    Ta-Nehisi Coates
    “The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.”
    Ta-Nehisi Coates

  • #13
    William Shakespeare
    “Me, poor man, my library
    Was dukedom large enough.”
    William Shakespeare, The Tempest



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