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  • #1
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

  • #2
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #3
    Confucius
    “Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.”
    Confucius

  • #4
    Graham Greene
    “Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.”
    Graham Greene

  • #5
    Pauline Kael
    “Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.”
    Pauline Kael

  • #6
    Bill Nye
    “Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.”
    Bill Nye

  • #7
    Rex Stout
    “We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.”
    Rex Stout, The Rubber Band

  • #9
    Josephine Winslow Johnson
    “The earth was overwhelmed with beauty and indifferent to it, and I went with a heart ready to crack for its unbearable loveliness.”
    Josephine Winslow Johnson, Now in November

  • #10
    Hermann Hesse
    “Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”
    Herman Hesse

  • #11
    O. Henry
    “Each of us, when our day's work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.”
    O. Henry

  • #12
    Alice Munro
    “The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.”
    Alice Munro, Runaway: Stories

  • #13
    Jack London
    “I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.”
    Jack London

  • #14
    Martin Amis
    “Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.”
    Martin Amis

  • #15
    John Locke
    “Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
    John Locke

  • #16
    Boris Pasternak
    “I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them. ”
    Boris Pasternak

  • #17
    D.H. Lawrence
    “For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.”
    D.H. Lawrence

  • #18
    James Fenimore Cooper
    “History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.”
    James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans

  • #19
    Anne Bradstreet
    “Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.”
    Anne Bradstreet

  • #20
    William Carlos Williams
    “It's a strange courage
    you give me ancient star:
    Shine alone in the sunrise
    toward which you lend no part!”
    William Carlos Williams

  • #21
    Jude Deveraux
    “Love can make even nice people do awful things.”
    Jude Deveraux

  • #22
    Harold Pinter
    “I hate brandy...it stinks of modern literature.”
    Harold Pinter, Betrayal

  • #23
    Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.
    “Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
    Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

  • #24
    Paul Simon
    “It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.”
    Paul Simon

  • #25
    Doris Lessing
    “What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.”
    Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook

  • #26
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
    Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

  • #27
    Arthur Rimbaud
    “Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.”
    Arthur Rimbaud

  • #28
    Kathleen Winsor
    “Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.”
    Kathleen Winsor

  • #29
    George Saunders
    “Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial.”
    George Saunders

  • #30
    Leonard Woolf
    “Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.”
    Leonard Woolf

  • #31
    Henry Green
    “To me the purpose of art is to produce something alive...but with a separate, and of course one hopes, with an everlasting life of its own.”
    Henry Green



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