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  • #1
    William Shakespeare
    “The course of true love never did run smooth; But, either it was different in blood,
    O cross! too high to be enthrall’d to low.
    Or else misgraffed in respect of years,
    O spite! too old to be engag’d to young.
    Or else it stood upon the choice of friends,
    O hell! to choose love by another’s eye.”
    William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

  • #2
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #3
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #4
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien

  • #5
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

  • #6
    Stephen  King
    “Get busy living or get busy dying.”
    Stephen King, Different Seasons

  • #7
    Stephen  King
    “The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
    Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

  • #8
    Stephen  King
    “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
    Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

  • #9
    Stephen  King
    “If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”
    Stephen King

  • #10
    Stephen  King
    “If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.”
    Stephen King

  • #11
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Hysteria is impossible without an audience. Panicking by yourself is the same as laughing alone in an empty room. You feel really silly.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

  • #12
    Jeff Lindsay
    “Weren't we all crazy in our sleep? What was sleep, after all, but the process by which we dumped our insanity into a dark subconscious pit and came out on the other side ready to eat cereal instead of our neighbor's children?”
    Jeff Lindsay, Darkly Dreaming Dexter

  • #13
    E.B. White
    “Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.”
    E.B. White

  • #14
    E.B. White
    “Be obscure clearly.”
    E.B. White

  • #15
    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

  • #16
    Jane Austen
    “A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #17
    Jane Austen
    “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #18
    Jane Austen
    “I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
    Jane Austen, Jane Austen's Letters

  • #19
    Jane Austen
    “In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
    Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice

  • #20
    Jane Austen
    “You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.”
    Jane Austen, Persuasion

  • #21
    Jane Austen
    “but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
    Jane Austen

  • #22
    Jane Austen
    “I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #23
    W.H. Auden
    “If equal affection cannot be,
    Let the more loving one be me.”
    W.H. Auden

  • #24
    W.H. Auden
    “Thank God for books as an alternative to conversation.”
    W.H. Auden

  • #25
    W.H. Auden
    “You owe it to all of us to get on with what you're good at.”
    W.H. Auden

  • #26
    W.H. Auden
    “In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.”
    W. H. Auden

  • #27
    W.H. Auden
    “No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.”
    W. H. Auden

  • #28
    W.H. Auden
    “There are good books which are only for adults.
    There are no good books which are only for children.”
    W.H. Auden

  • #29
    Henry Ward Beecher
    “Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
    Henry Ward Beecherr

  • #30
    W.H. Auden
    “You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart.”
    Wystan Hugh Auden



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