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“I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.”
― Walt Whitman

“Writers, like elephants, have long, vicious memories. There are things I wish I could forget.”
― William S. Burroughs

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.”
― Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides

“If a good woman isn't a little bit Bitchy sometimes, it is just as though Dijon mustard didn't have any taste.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Sometimes I fly like an eagle but with the wings of a wren”
― Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
― Rudyard Kipling

“PIPPIN: I didn't think it would end this way.

GANDALF: End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it.

PIPPIN: What? Gandalf? See what?

GANDALF: White shores, and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise.

PIPPIN: Well, that isn't so bad.

GANDALF: No. No, it isn't.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings