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“One eye sees, the other feels.”
― Paul Klee

“Be glad. Be good. Be brave.”
― Eleanor Hodgman Porter

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Tell me a story of deep delight.”
― Robert Penn Warren

“Quite often somebody will say, 'What year do your books take place?' and the only answer I can give is, in childhood.”
― Beverly Cleary

“I get a warm feeling among my books.”
― Anthony Powell

“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
― Abigail Van Buren

“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”
― Francis Bacon

“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes

“I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.”
― Norman Mailer

“It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.”
― W.C. Fields

“Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.”
― Mary Leakey

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.”
― Amy Tan, The Bonesetter's Daughter

“There's always some further action to take.”
― Pierre Boulle

“The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road: The Original Scroll

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.”
― Clare Boothe Luce

“Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling - I can so well remember it. There was always something more - behind and beyond everything - to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.”
― Kate Greenaway

“When I am an old woman I shall wear purple. With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.”
― Jenny Joseph, Warning: When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple

“Energy rightly applied and directed will accomplish anything.”
― Nellie Bly

“You swam in a river of chance and coincidence. You clung to the happiest accidents—the rest you let float by.”
― David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

“It's like learning to ride a unicorn. You never forget.”
― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl

“It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.”
― W.G. Sebald, Vertigo

“How much does one imagine, how much observe? One can no more separate those functions than divide light from air, or wetness from water.”
― Elspeth Huxley, The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood

“I don't think a tough question is disrespectful.”
― Helen Thomas

“The best thing to do was to brazen it out, throw your head back, walk with a swagger...”
― Sarah Waters

“She wanted to be extraordinary, to possess a savage glitter.”
― Joy Williams

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
― Alice Walker

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
― Charles M. Schulz