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  • #1
    James Baldwin
    “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
    James Baldwin

  • #2
    “Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”
    Cesar A. Cruz

  • #3
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.”
    Vladimir Nabokov
    tags: art

  • #4
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.”
    Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

  • #5
    T.S. Eliot
    “Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”
    T.S. Eliot

  • #6
    Alan             Moore
    “There's a notion I'd like to see buried: the ordinary person. Ridiculous. There is no ordinary person.”
    Alan Moore, Watchmen

  • #7
    Robert Frost
    “These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
    But I have promises to keep,
    And miles to go before I sleep,
    And miles to go before I sleep.”
    Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

  • #8
    Lemony Snicket
    “The world is quiet here.”
    Lemony Snicket

  • #9
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

  • #10
    Alberto Manguel
    “I enjoyed learning the poems, but I didn’t understand of what use they might possibly be. ‘They’ll keep you company on the day you have no books to read,’ my teacher said.”
    Alberto Manguel

  • #11
    T.S. Eliot
    “April is the cruelest month, breeding
    lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
    memory and desire, stirring
    dull roots with spring rain.”
    T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land

  • #12
    David Foster Wallace
    “What the really great artists do is they're entirely themselves. They're entirely themselves, they've got their own vision, they have their own way of fracturing reality, and if it's authentic and true, you will feel it in your nerve endings.”
    David Foster Wallace

  • #13
    Charles M. Schulz
    “Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong'.
    Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.”
    Charlie Schultz

  • #14
    Harper Lee
    “Atticus, he was real nice."

    "Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #15
    Naomi Shihab Nye
    “I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous,
    or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular,
    but because it never forgot what it could do.

    Naomi Shihab Nye

  • #16
    Fred Rogers
    “When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.”
    Fred Rogers

  • #17
    Charles Bukowski
    “There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out
    but I'm too tough for him,
    I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #18
    Cormac McCarthy
    “What's the bravest thing you ever did?
    He spat in the road a bloody phlegm. Getting up this morning, he said.”
    Cormac McCarthy, The Road

  • #19
    Henry James
    “Never say you know the last word about any human heart.”
    Henry James

  • #20
    Lemony Snicket
    “Criminals should be punished, not fed pastries.”
    Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book

  • #21
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

  • #22
    Winston S. Churchill
    “If you are going through hell, keep going.”
    Winston S. Churchill

  • #23
    Ray Bradbury
    “Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?"
    "Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you.”
    Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

  • #24
    Andy Warhol
    “I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want.”
    Andy Warhol

  • #25
    T.S. Eliot
    “I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”
    T.S. Eliot

  • #26
    Henry James
    “Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
    Henry James

  • #27
    Leo Tolstoy
    “It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
    Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata

  • #28
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Your heart is my piñata.”
    Chuck Palahniuk

  • #29
    “The rain it raineth on the just
    And also on the unjust fella;
    But chiefly on the just, because
    The unjust hath the just’s umbrella.”
    Charles Bowen

  • #30
    Lemony Snicket
    “If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid



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