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  • #1
    Albert Einstein
    “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #2
    Pramoedya Ananta Toer
    “Orang boleh pandai setinggi langit, tapi selama ia tidak menulis, ia akan hilang di dalam masyarakat dan dari sejarah. Menulis adalah bekerja untuk keabadian.”
    Pramoedya Ananta Toer

  • #3
    Markus Herz
    “Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”
    Markus Herz

  • #4
    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. Those who do not do it, think of it as a cousin of stamp collecting, a sister of the trophy cabinet, bastard of a sound bank account and a weak mind.”
    Jeanette Winterson

  • #5
    Hermann Hesse
    “Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.”
    Hermann Hesse

  • #6
    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    Mark Twain

  • #7
    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    Jorge Luis Borges

  • #8
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
    Cicero

  • #9
    Groucho Marx
    “When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'.”
    Groucho Marx

  • #10
    Groucho Marx
    “Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, and I'm going to be happy in it.”
    Groucho Marx

  • #11
    Toni Morrison
    “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
    Toni Morrison

  • #12
    Oscar Wilde
    “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

  • #13
    Colette
    “Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it."

    (Casual Chance, 1964)”
    Colette

  • #14
    Victor Hugo
    “To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.”
    Victor Hugo

  • #15
    Jasper Fforde
    “Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.”
    Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair

  • #16
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #17
    Mother Teresa
    “Peace begins with a smile..”
    Mother Teresa

  • #18
    Maya Angelou
    “What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.”
    Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

  • #19
    Philip Pullman
    “We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.”
    Philip Pullman

  • #20
    Maya Angelou
    “Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!”
    Maya Angelou

  • #21
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

  • #22
    Steve Jobs
    “Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
    Steve Jobs

  • #23
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

  • #24
    Steve  Martin
    “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
    Steve Martin

  • #25
    Richelle Mead
    “Dreams, dreams. I walk them; I live them. I delude myself with them. It's a wonder I can spot reality anymore.”
    Richelle Mead, Spirit Bound

  • #26
    Mitch Albom
    “I like myself better when I'm with you.”
    Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

  • #27
    Grace Paley
    “You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else.”
    Grace Paley

  • #28
    George Meredith
    “A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.”
    George Meredith, Diana of the Crossways

  • #29
    William Stafford
    “Wisdom is having things right in your life
    and knowing why.”
    William Stafford

  • #30
    Groucho Marx
    “Chico: "Here's the book, it's a dollar"
    Groucho: "Here's a ten, and shoot the change."
    Chico: "I don't have change I'd have to give you nine more books.”
    Groucho Marx



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