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  • #1
    Sarah Vowell
    “We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid of my flaws and there would be no one left.”
    Sarah Vowell, Take the Cannoli

  • #2
    Timothy Mo
    “The assaying of tea is an art and not a science. It is the man, and not his instruments, which is the most important.”
    Timothy Mo

  • #3
    Connie Willis
    “That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!”
    Connie Willis, Passage

  • #4
    André Aciman
    “Most of us can't help but live as though we've got two lives to live, one is the mockup, the other the finished version, and then there are all those versions in between.”
    André Aciman

  • #5
    Harlan Coben
    “Years fly by, but the heart stays in the same place.”
    Harlan Coben, Promise Me

  • #6
    Jamaica Kincaid
    “Friendship is a simple thing, and yet complicated; friendship is on the surface, something natural, something taken for granted, and yet underneath one could find worlds.”
    Jamaica Kincaid

  • #7
    Jorge Luis Borges
    “I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”
    Jorge Luis Borges

  • #8
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.”
    Simone de Beauvoir

  • #9
    Thomas Paine
    “The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
    Thomas Paine, A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North America

  • #10
    David  Mitchell
    “My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”
    David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

  • #11
    Hugh Lofting
    “Some people you will always have about you whom you can trust, and no man these days can boast of more than that. Remember them; forget the others.”
    Hugh Lofting

  • #12
    Ayn Rand
    “If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”
    Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

  • #13
    Henry Austin Dobson
    “Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, Time stays, we go.”
    Henry Austin Dobson

  • #14
    Patricia Highsmith
    “My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”
    Patricia Highsmith

  • #15
    Arthur Miller
    “Everything we are is at every moment alive in us.”
    Arthur Miller

  • #16
    Stendhal
    “A good book is an event in my life.”
    Stendhal, The Red and the Black

  • #17
    Frank Miller
    “The world doesn't make sense until you force it to.”
    Frank Miller

  • #18
    Edward Abbey
    “Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.”
    Edward Abbey

  • #19
    Kenzaburō Ōe
    “The dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live.”
    Kenzaburō Ōe, Hiroshima Notes

  • #20
    Brandon Mull
    “Drink the milk.”
    Brandon Mull, Fablehaven

  • #21
    Brandon Mull
    “Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others.”
    Brandon Mull, Fablehaven

  • #22
    Aldo Leopold
    “I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.”
    Aldo Leopold

  • #23
    Madame de Sévigné
    “The human heart will never wrinkle.”
    Madame de Sévigné, Letters of Madame de Sévigné to her Daughter and her Friends, Volume 2

  • #24
    The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have
    “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
    Alice Walker

  • #25
    Matt Groening
    “I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.”
    Matt Groening

  • #26
    W.E.B. Du Bois
    “Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.”
    W.E.B. DuBois

  • #27
    Johanna Lindsey
    “Do for yourself, for no one else will.”
    Johanna Lindsey, A Heart so Wild



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