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  • #1
    W. Somerset Maugham
    “Impropriety is the soul of wit.”
    W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

  • #2
    Alice Walker
    “Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.”
    Alice Walker, Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems

  • #3
    Judy Blume
    “My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.”
    Judy Blume

  • #4
    James Joyce
    “And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.”
    James Joyce

  • #5
    Dave Eggers
    “Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”
    Dave Eggers

  • #6
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  • #7
    John Irving
    “You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.”
    John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire

  • #8
    Leslie Marmon Silko
    “You don't have anything
    if you don't have the stories.”
    Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony

  • #9
    Lewis Carroll
    “If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much!”
    Lewis Carroll

  • #10
    Sylvia Townsend Warner
    “It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.”
    Sylvia Townsend Warner, Lolly Willowes

  • #11
    Daphne du Maurier
    “But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
    Daphne du Maurier

  • #12
    Horton Foote
    “I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them...to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and don’t ask quarters.”
    Horton Foote

  • #13
    William Gibson
    “The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.”
    William Gibson, Pattern Recognition

  • #14
    George Plimpton
    “I have never been convinced there's anything inherently wrong in having fun. ”
    George Plimpton

  • #15
    Ved Mehta
    “Surely only boring people went in for conversations consisting of questions and answers. The art of true conversation consisted in the play of minds.”
    Ved Mehta, All for Love

  • #16
    Billy Collins
    “You will always be the bread and the knife, not to mention the crystal goblet and—somehow—the wine.”
    Billy Collins

  • #17
    Louis Adamic
    “My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.”
    Louis Adamic

  • #18
    Kobayashi Issa
    “What a strange thing!
    to be alive
    beneath cherry blossoms.”
    Kobayashi Issa, Poems

  • #19
    E.B. White
    “Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.”
    E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

  • #20
    Barbara Kingsolver
    “Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.”
    Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

  • #21
    Anne Lamott
    “Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.”
    Anne Lamott

  • #22
    Jon Krakauer
    “I now walk into the wild.”
    Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

  • #23
    Eudora Welty
    “All serious daring starts from within.”
    Eudora Welty, On Writing

  • #24
    Noah Webster
    “The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.”
    Noah Webster

  • #25
    Charlie Chaplin
    “Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.”
    Charles Chaplin

  • #26
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #27
    Rafael Sabatini
    “He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.”
    Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche

  • #28
    Alice B. Toklas
    “In the menu, there should be a climax and a culmination. Come to it gently. One will suffice.”
    Alice B. Toklas

  • #29
    Joseph Heller
    “He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.”
    Joseph Heller, Catch-22

  • #30
    Hilary Mantel
    “Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.”
    Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall



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