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  • #1
    Gail Carson Levine
    “Step follows step,
    Hope follows Courage,
    Set your face towards danger,
    Set your heart on victory.”
    Gail Carson Levine, The Two Princesses of Bamarre

  • #2
    Elie Wiesel
    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
    Elie Wiesel

  • #3
    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

  • #4
    Douglas Adams
    “I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”
    Douglas Adams

  • #5
    Aldous Huxley
    “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
    Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929

  • #6
    John Steinbeck
    “I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.”
    John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

  • #7
    James Joyce
    “You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I do not fear. I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake and perhaps as long as eternity too.”
    James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

  • #8
    James Joyce
    “Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.”
    James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

  • #9
    James Joyce
    “Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body.”
    James Joyce, Dubliners

  • #10
    James Joyce
    “You can still die when the sun is shining.”
    James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

  • #11
    James Joyce
    “This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am.”
    James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

  • #12
    Douglas Adams
    “The story so far:
    In the beginning the Universe was created.
    This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
    Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

  • #13
    Douglas Adams
    “If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  • #14
    Douglas Adams
    “This must be Thursday,' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. 'I never could get the hang of Thursdays.”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  • #15
    Douglas Adams
    “Ford... you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  • #16
    Douglas Adams
    “It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.”
    Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

  • #17
    Douglas Adams
    “My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes.”
    Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

  • #18
    Douglas Adams
    “I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?”
    Douglas Adams

  • #19
    Oh, please don't go—we'll eat you up—we love you so!
    “Oh, please don't go—we'll eat you up—we love you so!”
    Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are

  • #20
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

  • #21
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan

  • #22
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been.”
    Kurt Vonnegut

  • #23
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.”
    Kurt Vonnegut

  • #24
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

  • #25
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.”
    Kurt Vonnegut

  • #26
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “To be is to do - Socrates

    To do is to be - Sartre

    Do Be Do Be Do - Sinatra”
    Kurt Vonnegut

  • #27
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake

  • #28
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan

  • #29
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.”
    Kurt Vonnegut

  • #30
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “All this happened, more or less.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five



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