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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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