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  • #1
    Joy Williams
    “She wanted to be extraordinary, to possess a savage glitter.”
    Joy Williams

  • #2
    John Cheever
    “I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
    John Cheever

  • #3
    Marilyn Monroe
    “A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #5
    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

  • #6
    Douglas Adams
    “There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

    There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”
    Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

  • #7
    Jerry Scott
    “I totally carpe-d the snot out of this diem!”
    Jerry Scott

  • #8
    Ashley Newell
    “I have led you down a road of deception just to correct you and make you look like an uneducated ass”
    Ashley Newell

  • #9
    H.P. Lovecraft
    “Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.”
    H.P. Lovecraft

  • #10
    Edgar Lee Masters
    “To this generation I would say:
    Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty.”
    Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology

  • #11
    Eugene Field
    “No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.”
    Eugene Field

  • #12
    Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
    “Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #13
    William Blake
    “Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
    In the forests of the night,
    What immortal hand or eye
    Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”
    William Blake

  • #14
    “We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”
    Stephen Hawking

  • #15
    Mortimer J. Adler
    “In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
    Mortimer J. Adler

  • #16
    Douglas Adams
    “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
    Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

  • #17
    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
    Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

  • #18
    Bobbie Ann Mason
    “One day I was counting the cats and I absent-mindedly counted myself.”
    Bobbie Ann Mason, Shiloh and Other Stories

  • #19
    Vikram Seth
    “God save us from people who mean well.”
    Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy

  • #20
    Charlotte Perkins Gilman
    “It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight.”
    Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories

  • #21
    Jhumpa Lahiri
    “That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
    Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

  • #22
    David Nicholls
    “This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”
    David Nicholls, One Day

  • #23
    J.K. Rowling
    “We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.”
    J.K. Rowling

  • #24
    Yves Saint-Laurent
    “We must never confuse elegance with snobbery”
    Yves Saint Laurent

  • #25
    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
    “Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.”
    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  • #26
    Temple Grandin
    “I am different, not less.”
    Temple Grandin

  • #27
    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

  • #28
    George Saunders
    “That luminous part of you that exists beyond personality–your soul, if you will–is as bright and shining as any that has ever been....Clear away everything that keeps you separate from this secret luminous place. Believe it exists, come to know it better, nurture it, share its fruits tirelessly.”
    George Saunders

  • #29
    John Milton
    “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
    John Milton, Paradise Lost

  • #30
    Paula Poundstone
    “Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up ’cause they’re looking for ideas.”
    Paula Poundstone

  • #31
    Jack Gilbert
    “Everyone forgets Icarus also flew.”
    Jack Gilbert, Refusing Heaven: Poems



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