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“The world's perverse, but it could be worse.”
― Mona Van Duyn

“Every great love starts with a great story...”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter”
― John Keats, Ode On A Grecian Urn And Other Poems

“Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.”
― Norman Mailer

“There's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them.”
― John Boyne

“It is never too late to be wise.”
― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

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

“And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.”
― George Gordon Byron

“Literature is news that stays news.”
― Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading

“Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is the way you can both hate and love something you are not sure you understand.”
― Dorothy Allison, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“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

“We are each the authors of our own lives, Emma. We live in what we have created. There is no way to shift the blame and no one else to accept the accolades.”
― Barbara Taylor Bradford, A Woman of Substance

“Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”
― Richard P. Feynman

“Laugh all you want and cry all you want and whistle at pretty men in the street and to hell with anybody who thinks you're a damned fool!”
― Armistead Maupin, More Tales of the City

“If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books.
The book needs you.”
― Gary Paulsen, The Winter Room

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”
― John Muir

“The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

“A lesson taught with humor is a lesson retained.”
― Ruth K. Westheimer

“Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”
― Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.”
― Phyllis Diller

“The world is a story we tell ourselves about the world.”
― Vikram Chandra

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
― Herman Melville

“There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go--if there are no doors or windows--he walks through a wall.”
― Bernard Malamud

“The end of man is knowledge, but there is one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can't know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn't got and which if he had it, would save him.”
― Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men

“Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.”
― Robert J. Sawyer, Calculating God

“Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.”
― Joseph Heller

“I'm not young enough to know everything.”
― J.M. Barrie, The Admirable Crichton

“The past is never where you think you left it.”
― Katherine Anne Porter