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  • #1
    Ivan Turgenev
    “If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”
    Ivan Turgenev

  • #2
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #3
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    Robert Frost

  • #4
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
    "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #5
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

  • #6
    Isaac Asimov
    “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
    Isaac Asimov

  • #7
    Roald Dahl
    “So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
    Roald Dahl

  • #8
    Lucille Clifton
    “You might as well answer the door, my child,
    the truth is furiously knocking.”
    Lucille Clifton, Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980

  • #9
    Chris Rock
    “Comedy is the blues for people who can’t sing.”
    Chris Rock

  • #10
    Marianne Moore
    “Your thorns are the best part of you.”
    Marianne Moore

  • #11
    James Dickey
    “A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.”
    James Dickey

  • #12
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    “Books are the carriers of civilization...They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.”
    Barbara W. Tuchman

  • #13
    Edward Abbey
    “May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.”
    Edward Abbey

  • #14
    Colette
    “You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”
    Colette

  • #15
    A.A. Milne
    “I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.”
    A.A. Milne

  • #16
    Anton Chekhov
    “Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and when he dies only the five senses that we know perish with him, and the other ninety-five remain alive.”
    Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard

  • #17
    Ruth Reichl
    “Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.”
    Ruth Reichl

  • #18
    Philip Levine
    “Some things you know all your life. They are so simple and true they must be said without elegance, meter and rhyme...they must be naked and alone, they must stand for themselves.”
    Philip Levine

  • #19
    Isaac Asimov
    “In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”
    Isaac Asimov

  • #20
    Carlos Castaneda
    “You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life.”
    Carlos Castaneda

  • #21
    Steve Jobs
    “Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
    Steve Jobs

  • #22
    W.E.B. Du Bois
    “Believe in life! Always human beings will progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.”
    W.E.B. Du Bois

  • #23
    Haruki Murakami
    “What happens when people open their hearts?"
    "They get better.”
    Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

  • #24
    Russell Banks
    “Go, my book, and help destroy the world as it is.”
    Russell Banks, Continental Drift

  • #25
    Tennessee Williams
    “If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.”
    Tennessee Williams, Conversations With Tennessee Williams

  • #26
    Richard Francis Burton
    “Little islands are all large prisons; one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.”
    Sir Richard Francis Burton

  • #27
    Albert Einstein
    “The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #28
    Geoffrey Chaucer
    “Patience is a conquering virtue.”
    Geoffrey Chaucer

  • #29
    Daniel Defoe
    “The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.”
    Daniel Defoe

  • #30
    Tom Clancy
    “The only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read”
    Tom Clancy



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