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  • #1
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #2
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #3
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

  • #5
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    Mark Twain

  • #6
    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #7
    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

  • #8
    Alfred Hitchcock
    “The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.”
    Alfred Hitchcock

  • #9
    Alfred Hitchcock
    “If I won't be myself, who will?”
    Alfred Hitchcock, Alfred Hitchcock: Interviews

  • #10
    Alfred Hitchcock
    “Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.”
    Alfred Hitchcock

  • #11
    Alfred Hitchcock
    “I can't read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.”
    Alfred Hitchcock

  • #12
    Alfred Hitchcock
    “The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book -- it makes a very poor doorstop.”
    Alfred Hitchcock

  • #13
    Alfred Hitchcock
    “Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.”
    Alfred Hitchcock

  • #14
    J.K. Rowling
    “You know, Minister, I disagree with Dumbledore on many counts...but you cannot deny he's got style...”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

  • #15
    Alfred Hitchcock
    “Ideas come from everything”
    Alfred Hitchcock

  • #16
    Alfred Hitchcock
    “Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is exactly the same sort of thing that frightened us yesterday. It's just a different wolf. This fright complex is rooted in every individual.”
    Alfred Hitchcock

  • #17
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #18
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #19
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
    Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

  • #20
    Ernest Hemingway
    “I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #21
    Ernest Hemingway
    “All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #22
    Ernest Hemingway
    “When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #23
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”
    Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

  • #24
    Ernest Hemingway
    “I drink to make other people more interesting.”
    Hemingway, Ernest

  • #25
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”
    Ernest Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Reference
    tags: war

  • #26
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Courage is grace under pressure.”
    ernest hemingway

  • #27
    Ernest Hemingway
    “All thinking men are atheists.”
    Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

  • #28
    Erin Morgenstern
    “You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows that they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift.”
    Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

  • #29
    Erin Morgenstern
    “People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.”
    Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

  • #30
    Erin Morgenstern
    “Secrets have power. And that power diminishes when they are shared, so they are best kept and kept well. Sharing secrets, real secrets, important ones, with even one other person, will change them. Writing them down is worse, because who can tell how many eyes might see them inscribed on paper, no matter how careful you might be with it. So it's really best to keep your secrets when you have them, for their own good, as well as yours.”
    Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

  • #31
    Erin Morgenstern
    “Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.”
    Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus



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