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  • #1
    Tom Bodett
    “They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
    Tom Bodett

  • #2
    Khaled Hosseini
    “I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”
    Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

  • #3
    Clare Boothe Luce
    “Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.”
    Clare Boothe Luce

  • #4
    Erica Jong
    “Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”
    Erica Jong

  • #5
    Dodie Smith
    “I shouldn't think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and honey for tea.”
    Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

  • #6
    Jenny Joseph
    “When I am an old woman I shall wear purple. With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.”
    Jenny Joseph, Warning: When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple

  • #7
    W.G. Sebald
    “It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.”
    W.G. Sebald, Vertigo

  • #8
    Ian Fleming
    “Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes,' otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.”
    Ian Fleming

  • #9
    Margaret Drabble
    “Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.”
    Margaret Drabble

  • #10
    Charles Dickens
    “And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death.”
    Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

  • #11
    Czesław Miłosz
    “Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.”
    Czeslaw Milosz

  • #12
    Ingmar Bergman
    “Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.”
    Ingmar Bergman

  • #13
    I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
    “I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
    Sarah Williams

  • #14
    Edith Sitwell
    “I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.”
    Edith Sitwell

  • #15
    Edward P. Jones
    “We are all worthy of one another.”
    Edward P. Jones, The Known World

  • #16
    Beryl Bainbridge
    “The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour”
    Beryl Bainbridge

  • #17
    Lorrie Moore
    “All the world's a stage we're going through.”
    Lorrie Moore, Anagrams

  • #18
    Kenneth Grahame
    “Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.”
    Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

  • #19
    Charlotte Brontë
    “Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.”
    Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

  • #20
    Geoffrey Chaucer
    “Patience is a conquering virtue.”
    Geoffrey Chaucer

  • #21
    Harper Lee
    “Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #22
    Henry James
    “She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.”
    Henry James

  • #23
    Zora Neale Hurston
    “Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”
    Zora Neale Hurston

  • #24
    Aldous Huxley
    “You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.”
    Aldous Huxley

  • #25
    Oscar Wilde
    “The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #26
    Marcus Aurelius
    “The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #27
    Epictetus
    “If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.”
    Epictetus

  • #28
    Gregory Maguire
    “Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.”
    Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

  • #29
    Philip K. Dick
    “Reality denied comes back to haunt.”
    Philip K. Dick, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

  • #30
    Victor Hugo
    “Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.”
    Victor Hugo, Les Misérables



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