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  • #1
    Louise Erdrich
    “To love another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.”
    Louise Erdrich, The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse

  • #2
    Austin Phelps
    “Wear the old coat and buy the new book.”
    Austin Phelps

  • #3
    Gregory Maguire
    “Approval is overrated. Approval and disapproval alike satisfy those who deliver it more than those who receive it.”
    Gregory Maguire, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

  • #4
    Jeannette Walls
    “Whoever coined the phrase 'a man's got to play the hand that was dealt him' was most certainly one piss-poor bluffer.”
    Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle
    tags: poker

  • #5
    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    Bernard M. Baruch

  • #6
    Gustave Flaubert
    “Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.”
    Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

  • #7
    Louise Erdrich
    “The only time I see the truth is when I cross my eyes.”
    Louise Erdrich, The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse

  • #8
    Guy de Maupassant
    “One sometimes weeps over one's illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.”
    Guy de Maupassant , Une vie

  • #9
    Aravind Adiga
    “So I stood around that big square of books. Standing around books, even books in a foreign language, you feel a kind of electricity buzzing up toward you, Your Excellency. It just happens, the way you get erect around girls wearing tight jeans.
    "Except here what happens is that your brain starts to hum.
    Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger

  • #10
    “My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter.”
    Thomas Helm

  • #11
    David Sedaris
    “If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.”
    David Sedaris, Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays

  • #12
    Dalai Lama XIV
    “Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.”
    Dalai Lama XIV

  • #13
    Robert Fulghum
    “We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”
    Robert Fulghum, True Love

  • #14
    Albert Camus
    “Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
    Albert Camus

  • #15
    Mae West
    “Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.”
    Mae West

  • #16
    Laurie R. King
    “That's what tears are for, you know, to wash away the fear and cool the hate.”
    Laurie R. King

  • #17
    Mario Vargas Llosa
    “Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.”
    Mario Vargas Llosa

  • #18
    Mark Twain
    “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
    Mark Twain

  • #19
    Tom Spanbauer
    “Looking for who I am is who I am.”
    Tom Spanbauer, The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon

  • #20
    Louise Erdrich
    “There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions.”
    Louise Erdrich, Tales of Burning Love

  • #21
    Glen Duncan
    “Just because life's meaningless doesn't mean we can't experience it meaningfully.”
    Glen Duncan, The Last Werewolf

  • #22
    Nick Hornby
    “I read the fuck out of every book I can get my hands on.”
    Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down

  • #23
    Booth Tarkington
    “Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.”
    Booth Tarkington, The Magnificent Ambersons

  • #24
    John   Waters
    “We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don't have books, don't fuck them.”
    John Waters

  • #25
    Friedrich Schiller
    “If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad.”
    Friedrich von Schiller
    tags: art

  • #26
    John Irving
    “If you can't love crudeness, how can you truly love mankind?”
    John Irving, My Movie Business: A Memoir

  • #27
    Judy Blume
    “Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.”
    Judy Blume

  • #28
    George R.R. Martin
    “... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #29
    Christopher  Morley
    “There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”
    Christopher Morley, Pipefuls

  • #30
    Michelangelo Buonarroti
    “Critique by creating.”
    Michelangelo Buonarroti



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