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  • #1
    T.S. Eliot
    “For last year's words belong to last year's language
    And next year's words await another voice.”
    T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

  • #2
    Umberto Eco
    “We live for books.”
    Umberto Eco

  • #3
    Gloria Naylor
    “The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul.”
    Gloria Naylor, Linden Hills

  • #4
    Joe Klein
    “Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.”
    Joe Klein, Primary Colors

  • #5
    Marvin Bell
    “Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.”
    Marvin Bell

  • #6
    Norman Rush
    “Literature is humanity talking to itself.”
    Norman Rush

  • #7
    James  Jones
    “That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.”
    James Jones, From Here to Eternity

  • #8
    Madeleine de Scudéry
    “Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing.”
    Madeleine de Scudéry

  • #9
    John Steinbeck
    “I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
    John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

  • #10
    Helen Keller
    “I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
    Helen Keller

  • #11
    Charles M. Schulz
    “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
    Charles M. Schulz

  • #12
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

  • #13
    Machado de Assis
    “To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them.”
    Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

  • #14
    Francisco Cândido Xavier
    “‎Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending.”
    Chico Xavier

  • #15
    Lewis Carroll
    “She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

  • #16
    Jean de la Fontaine
    “Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”
    Jean de La Fontaine

  • #17
    S.E. Hinton
    “If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky.”
    S.E. Hinton

  • #18
    Ibn-e-Safi
    “Life is just action and reaction, rationalizations are added later on”
    Ibn-e-Safi

  • #19
    “Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
    George R. R. Martin

  • #20
    Italo Calvino
    “Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.”
    Italo Calvino

  • #21
    Tom Perrotta
    “Maybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish.”
    Tom Perrotta, Election

  • #22
    V.S. Naipaul
    “The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.”
    V. S. Naipaul, In a Free State

  • #23
    A.A. Milne
    “Some people care too much. I think it's called love.”
    A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

  • #24
    Jeanette Winterson
    “Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”
    Jeanette Winterson

  • #25
    Sherwood Anderson
    “I am a lover and have not found my thing to love.”
    Sherwood Anderson

  • #26
    Shel Silverstein
    “There are no happy endings.
    Endings are the saddest part,
    So just give me a happy middle
    And a very happy start.”
    Shel Silverstein, Every Thing on It

  • #27
    Douglas Adams
    “Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”
    Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

  • #28
    Nawal El Saadawi
    “Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself.”
    Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero

  • #29
    Susanna Clarke
    “And how shall I think of you?' He considered a moment and then laughed. 'Think of me with my nose in a book!”
    Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

  • #30
    Zig Ziglar
    “Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”
    Zig Ziglar



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