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  • #1
    James Baldwin
    “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
    James Baldwin

  • #2
    Carl Sagan
    “It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.”
    Carl Sagan, Contact

  • #3
    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    Mark Twain

  • #4
    Oscar Wilde
    “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
    Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

  • #5
    Oscar Wilde
    “Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #6
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

  • #7
    Margaret Mitchell
    “Dear Scarlett! You aren't helpless. Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless. God help the Yankees if they should get you." -Rhett Butler”
    Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

  • #8
    Margaret Mitchell
    “Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.”
    Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

  • #9
    Margaret Mitchell
    “Never pass up new experiences [Scarlett], They enrich the mind." - Rhett Butler”
    Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

  • #10
    Margaret Mitchell
    “You're so brutal to those who love you, Scarlett. You take their love and hold it over their heads like a whip.”
    Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

  • #11
    Margaret Mitchell
    “And apologies, once postponed, become harder and harder to make, and finally impossible.”
    Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

  • #12
    Margaret Mitchell
    “Once, when she was six years old, she had fallen from a tree, flat on her stomach. She could still recall that sickening interval before breath came back into her body. Now, as she looked at him, she felt the same way she had felt then, breathless, stunned, nauseated.”
    Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

  • #13
    Margaret Mitchell
    “Yes, I want money more than anything else in the world.”

    “Then you’ve made the only choice. But there’s a penalty attached, as there is to most things you want. It’s loneliness.”
    Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind
    tags: truth

  • #14
    Carol Shields
    “The larger loneliness of our lives evolves from our unwillingness to spend ourselves, stir ourselves. We are always damping down our inner weather, permitting ourselves the comforts of postponement, of rehearsals”
    Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries

  • #15
    Albert Einstein
    “Never memorize something that you can look up.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #16
    Lou Holtz
    “It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.”
    Lou Holtz

  • #17
    Lou Holtz
    “You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.”
    Lou Holtz

  • #18
    Ben Okri
    “This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.”
    Ben Okri, The Famished Road

  • #19
    E.E. Cummings
    “To be nobody but
    yourself in a world
    which is doing its best day and night to make you like
    everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
    which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”
    E.E. Cummings

  • #20
    Shel Silverstein
    “If you are a dreamer come in
    If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar
    A hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyer
    If youre a pretender com sit by my fire
    For we have some flax golden tales to spin
    Come in!
    Come in!”
    Shel Silverstein

  • #21
    William Shakespeare
    “I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.”
    William Shakespeare

  • #22
    Jack Kerouac
    “Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.”
    Jack Kerouac

  • #23
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “I know you're tired but come, this is the way.”
    Jalalu'l-din Rumi

  • #24
    William Shakespeare
    “There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
    William Shakespeare, Hamlet

  • #25
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

  • #26
    Salvador Dalí
    “Since I don't smoke, I decided to grow a mustache - it is better for the health.
    However, I always carried a jewel-studded cigarette case in which, instead of tobacco, were carefully placed several mustaches, Adolphe Menjou style. I offered them politely to my friends: "Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?"
    Nobody dared to touch them. This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches.”
    Salvador Dalí, Dalí's Mustache

  • #27
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
    Kurt Vonnegut

  • #28
    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

  • #29
    Albert Einstein
    “The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #30
    Andrew  Jackson
    “It is a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word.”
    Andrew Jackson



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