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“We live for books.”
― Umberto Eco

“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”
― Stephen Hawking

“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

“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.”
― Henry Miller

“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.”
― Henry Adams

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

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
― Anais Nin

“Compassion is the basis of morality.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.”
― Ira Glass

“If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it's within your reach. And it'll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build. It'll be worth it, I promise.”
― Steve Wozniak

“Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.”
― Rob Reiner

“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 am different, not less.”
― Temple Grandin

“I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.”
― A.A. Milne

“It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.”
― Gertrude Stein

“Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.”
― Anthony Burgess

“To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.”
― Victor Hugo

“When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.”
― Neil Gaiman

“We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid of my flaws and there would be no one left.”
― Sarah Vowell, Take the Cannoli

“Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.”
― Edward Abbey

“She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.”
― Muriel Spark, Aiding and Abetting

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
― Alice Walker

“[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”

[Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.”
― Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim

“My life is like tofu—it's what gets added that makes it interesting.”
― Angela Johnson, A Certain October

“What feminism means for me is simply that women, like men, are complete human beings with limitless possibilities.”
― Fahmida Riaz