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  • #1
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • #2
    Carole Nelson Douglas
    “Never argue with a librarian; they know too much.”
    Carole Nelson Douglas, Cat in a Red Hot Rage

  • #3
    Diane Duane
    “Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”
    Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard

  • #4
    Diane Duane
    “Footsteps in the snow
    suggest where you have been,
    point to where you were going:
    but when they suddenly vanish,
    never dismiss the possibility
    of flight...”
    Diane Duane

  • #5
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #6
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “We loved with a love that was more than love.”
    Edgar Allen Poe

  • #7
    Kahlil Gibran
    “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
    Kahlil Gibran

  • #8
    “Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.”
    Jonathan Kellerman

  • #9
    Honoré de Balzac
    “The more one judges, the less one loves.”
    Honoré de Balzac, Physiologie Du Mariage: Ou Meditations De Philosophie Eclectique, Sur Le Bonheur Et Le Malheur Conjugal

  • #10
    Dorothy L. Sayers
    “Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.”
    Dorothy L. Sayers, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

  • #11
    “I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.”
    James Mitchner

  • #12
    “God bless the Reference Librarians”
    James Lee Burke

  • #13
    “Interstate highways are the veins and arteries by which crime circulates in America. Serial killers seem to float through them like blood cells, sometimes fast, sometimes slow. Crimes committed along interstate highways ought to be considered extraterritorially, apart from the normal rules of geography, and separate from a state's good name. These huge highways form a kind of fifty-first state of their own, a state whose flower is the deadly nightshade and whose state bird is the vulture.”
    William R. Maples, Dead Men Do Tell Tales: The Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist

  • #14
    Isaac Bashevis Singer
    “I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.”
    Isaac Bashevis Singer

  • #15
    Annie Proulx
    “If you can't fix it, you have to stand it.”
    Annie Proulx (Brokeback Mountain)

  • #16
    “A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.”
    John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy

  • #17
    Aldous Huxley
    “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
    Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929

  • #18
    Jonathan Swift
    “When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

    [Thoughts on Various Subjects]”
    Jonathan Swift , Abolishing Christianity and Other Essays

  • #19
    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
    Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible

  • #20
    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

  • #21
    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

  • #22
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #23
    Bernard Cornwell
    “But fate, as Merlin always taught us, is inexorable. Life is a jest of the Gods, Merlin liked to claim, and there is no justice. You must learn to laugh, he once told me, or else you'll just weep yourself to death.”
    Bernard Cornwell, The Winter King

  • #24
    Orson Scott Card
    “It's called civilization. Women invented it, and every time you men blow it all to bits, we just invent it again.”
    Orson Scott Card, The Folk of the Fringe

  • #25
    Orson Scott Card
    “Remember, the enemy's gate is down.”
    Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

  • #26
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

  • #27
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, The Green Hills of Earth

  • #28
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.”
    robert heinlein

  • #29
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Once a month, some women act like men act all the time.”
    Robert A. Heinlein

  • #30
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.”
    Robert A. Heinlein



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