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    Lewis Carroll
    “The Queen turned crimson with fury, and, after glaring at her for a moment like a wild beast, screamed 'Off with her head! Off—'
    'Nonsense!' said Alice, very loudly and decidedly, and the Queen was silent.”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

  • #2
    Lewis Carroll
    “Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.”
    Lewis Carroll , Alice in Wonderland

  • #3
    Lewis Carroll
    “She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

  • #4
    John Milton
    “Here at last
    We shall be free;
    the Almighty hath not built
    Here for his envy, will not drive us hence:
    Here we may reign secure, and in my choice
    To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:
    Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.”
    John Milton
    tags: death

  • #5
    Alan             Moore
    “Happiness is a prison, Evey. Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.”
    Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

  • #6
    T.H. White
    “The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.”
    T.H. White, The Once and Future King

  • #7
    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “Los hombres rara vez tienen el valor suficiente para ser o extremadamente buenos o extremadamente malos.”
    Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

  • #8
    Neil Gaiman
    “We do what we do, because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

  • #9
    Neil Gaiman
    “Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country

  • #10
    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    Neil Gaiman, Coraline

  • #11
    Neil Gaiman
    “You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes

  • #12
    Neil Gaiman
    “What power would hell have if those imprisoned here would not be able to dream of heaven?”
    Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes

  • #13
    Alan             Moore
    “Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.”
    Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

  • #14
    C.S. Lewis
    “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

  • #15
    C.S. Lewis
    “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #16
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

  • #17
    Neil Gaiman
    “I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who in Hamlet jokes, so this is just me getting it out of the way early, to avoid the rush...
    "To be, or not to be, that is the question. Weeelll.... More of A question really. Not THE question. Because, well, I mean, there are billions and billions of questions out there, and well, when I say billions, I mean, when you add in the answers, not just the questions, weeelll, you're looking at numbers that are positively astronomical and... for that matter the other question is what you lot are doing on this planet in the first place, and er, did anyone try just pushing this little red button?”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #18
    Herman Melville
    “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
    Herman Melville

  • #19
    Douglas Adams
    “The last ever dolphin message was misinterpreted as a surprisingly sophisticated attempt to do a double-backwards-somersault through a hoop whilst whistling the 'Star Spangled Banner', but in fact the message was this: So long and thanks for all the fish.
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  • #20
    Guy de Maupassant
    “It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.”
    Guy de Maupassant

  • #21
    Guy de Maupassant
    “The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.”
    Guy de Maupassant, The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant, Part One

  • #22
    Horacio Quiroga
    “Nada hay más bello y que fortalezca más en la vida, que un puro recuerdo”
    Horacio Quiroga, Cuentos de amor, de locura y de muerte

  • #23
    George R.R. Martin
    “Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #24
    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

  • #25
    Hayao Miyazaki
    “I try to dig deep into the well of my subconscious. At a certain moment in that process, the lid is opened and very different ideas and visions are liberated. With those I can start making a film. But maybe it's better that you don't open that lid completely, because if you release your subconscious it becomes really hard to live a social or family life.”
    Hayao Miyazaki

  • #26
    Jules Verne
    “It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.”
    Jules Verne, The Mysterious Island

  • #27
    Jules Verne
    “If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.”
    Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

  • #28
    Euripides
    “Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
    Euripides, The Bacchae

  • #29
    Anthony Burgess
    “Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.”
    Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

  • #30
    Anthony Burgess
    “We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.”
    Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange



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