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  • #1
    Richard Wright
    “The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.”
    Richard Wright

  • #2
    “Love me, hate me, see if I care.”
    Mitherl

  • #3
    Joseph Campbell
    “We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
    Joseph Campbell

  • #4
    Joseph Campbell
    “If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.”
    Joseph Campbell

  • #5
    Joseph Campbell
    “Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.”
    Joseph Campbell

  • #6
    Joseph Campbell
    “Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.”
    Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

  • #7
    Stephen  King
    “Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
    Stephen King

  • #8
    Lisa Scottoline
    “I wonder if whoever invented World of Warcraft realizes it’s practice for sociopaths.”
    Lisa Scottoline, Every Fifteen Minutes

  • #9
    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #10
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “I was reading.”
    Ghandi

  • #11
    Seneca
    “Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms -- you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older.”
    Seneca

  • #12
    Flannery O'Connor
    “The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
    Flannery O'Connor

  • #13
    Chinua Achebe
    “Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings.”
    Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart

  • #14
    Lao Tzu
    “If you are depressed you are living in the past.
    If you are anxious you are living in the future.
    If you are at peace you are living in the present.”
    Lao Tzu

  • #15
    Raj  Singh
    “God has given you the same brain, so use your own in stead of borrowing ideas from somebody else. Think about and fathom the ideas before following them.”
    Raj Singh, Anna Hazare "Adhoori Jeet Ke Nayak"

  • #16
    Virginia Woolf
    “Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
    Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts

  • #17
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • #18
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #19
    Douglas Preston
    “The truth shall make you free, but first it will make you miserable.”
    Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child, Gideon's Sword

  • #20
    Leo Tolstoy
    “If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
    Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

  • #21
    Leo Tolstoy
    “I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.”
    Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

  • #22
    Stephen  King
    “The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
    Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

  • #23
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #24
    Erma I Talamante
    “Companions were not allowed to lie. I don’t know why. I had tried a few times when I was young to get Benjamin to lie, and he never could. As we got older, I tried experiments, attempting to find a way for him to lie. Lies of omission, white lies, whoppers. Nothing. He couldn’t lie. My father told me that they were programmed that way. He seemed kind of proud about that.
    And now, I hoped, that would save my life.”
    Erma I Talamante

  • #25
    Patricia Highsmith
    “My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”
    Patricia Highsmith

  • #26
    Stephen Chbosky
    “There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #27
    John Grisham
    “Don't compromise yourself - you're all you have.”
    John Grisham, The Rainmaker



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