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  • #1
    Malcolm Gladwell
    “A book, I was taught long ago in English class, is a living and breathing document that grows richer with each new reading.”
    Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

  • #2
    Eduardo C. Corral
    “You’d wait in the orchard for hours
    to watch a deer
    break from the shadows.

    You said it was like lifting a cello
    out of its black case.”
    Eduardo C. Corral

  • #3
    Lionel Shriver
    “...You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to frustrate or attachments to sever; who worry what you think of them. You can really only punish people who are already a little bit good.”
    Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

  • #4
    Lionel Shriver
    “Children live in the same world we do. To kid ourselves that we can shelter them from it isn't just naive it's a vanity.”
    Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

  • #5
    Lionel Shriver
    “It's far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood.”
    Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

  • #6
    Homer
    “Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.”
    Homer, The Iliad

  • #7
    Virgil
    “Through pain I've learned to comfort suffering men”
    Virgil, The Aeneid

  • #8
    Aesop
    “A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.”
    Aesop, Aesop’s Fables

  • #9
    Aesop
    “I can't be friends with a man who blows hot and cold with the same breath.”
    Aesop, Aesop’s Fables

  • #10
    Lord Byron
    “Always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine.”
    Lord Byron

  • #11
    Lord Byron
    “I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.”
    Lord Byron

  • #12
    Lord Byron
    “A drop of ink may make a million think.”
    George Gordon Byron

  • #13
    Andrei Codrescu
    “It's still a mystery to me exactly how I learned the language. [But] I was 19 years old and I had very urgent things to tell girls.”
    Andrei Codrescu

  • #14
    Andrei Codrescu
    “Poetry is again hip in America as people are beginning to refuse to die of boredom and to choke in the fog of their funny money.”
    Andrei Codrescu, New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings from the City

  • #15
    Hubert Selby Jr.
    “Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done. ”
    Hubert Selby Jr., Requiem for a Dream

  • #16
    Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
    “Do not be afraid of your difficulties.Do not wish you could be in other circumstances than you are. For when you have made the best of an adversity, it becomes the stepping stone to a splendid opportunity.”
    H.P. Blavatsky

  • #17
    Dmitry Merezhkovsky
    “The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.”
    Dimitri Merejkowski, Romance of Leonard da Vinci

  • #18
    Honoré de Balzac
    “Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
    Honoré de Balzac

  • #19
    Honoré de Balzac
    “Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.”
    Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

  • #20
    Honoré de Balzac
    “Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.”
    Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

  • #21
    Honoré de Balzac
    “Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!”
    Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

  • #22
    Mark Z. Danielewski
    “Who has never killed an hour? Not casually or without thought, but carefully: a premeditated murder of minutes. The violence comes from a combination of giving up, not caring, and a resignation that getting past it is all you can hope to accomplish. So you kill the hour. You do not work, you do not read, you do not daydream. If you sleep it is not because you need to sleep. And when at last it is over, there is no evidence: no weapon, no blood, and no body. The only clue might be the shadows beneath your eyes or a terribly thin line near the corner of your mouth indicating something has been suffered, that in the privacy of your life you have lost something and the loss is too empty to share.”
    Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

  • #23
    Gaston Bachelard
    “To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.”
    Gaston Bachelard

  • #24
    Henry James
    “She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.”
    Henry James

  • #25
    Henry David Thoreau
    “How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
    Henry David Thoreau

  • #26
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #27
    David Foster Wallace
    “Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.”
    David Foster Wallace

  • #28
    Freeman Dyson
    “We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations.”
    Freeman Dyson, Infinite in All Directions

  • #29
    Freeman Dyson
    “Science is my territory, but science fiction is the landscape of my dreams.”
    Freeman John Dyson, Imagined Worlds

  • #30
    David  Mitchell
    “A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”
    David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas



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