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  • #1
    Ken Jennings
    “Trivia is mainstream. 'Nerd' is the new 'cool.”
    Ken Jennings

  • #2
    Fahmida Riaz
    “What feminism means for me is simply that women, like men, are complete human beings with limitless possibilities.”
    Fahmida Riaz

  • #3
    Gustave Flaubert
    “Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.”
    Gustave Flaubert

  • #4
    A certain darkness is needed to see the stars.
    “A certain darkness is needed to see the stars.”
    Osho, The Book of Secrets

  • #5
    Susan Cain
    “Everyone shines, given the right lighting.”
    Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

  • #6
    Robert James Waller
    “The old dreams were good dreams; they didn't work out but I'm glad I had them.”
    Robert James Waller, The Bridges of Madison County

  • #7
    Roland Barthes
    “Am I in love? --yes, since I am waiting. The other one never waits. Sometimes I want to play the part of the one who doesn't wait; I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time. The lover's fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.”
    Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

  • #8
    George Orwell
    “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #9
    George Orwell
    “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
    George Orwell

  • #10
    George Orwell
    “War is peace.
    Freedom is slavery.
    Ignorance is strength.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #11
    George Orwell
    “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
    George Orwell, Animal Farm

  • #12
    George Orwell
    “Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
    George Orwell

  • #13
    George Orwell
    “The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #14
    George Orwell
    “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
    George Orwell, Animal Farm

  • #15
    George Orwell
    “If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #16
    George Orwell
    “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #17
    George Orwell
    “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
    George Orwell

  • #18
    George Orwell
    “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #19
    George Orwell
    “Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ”
    George Orwell

  • #20
    George Orwell
    “We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #21
    George Orwell
    “But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
    George Orwell, Politics and the English Language

  • #22
    George Orwell
    “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
    George Orwell

  • #23
    George Orwell
    “Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #24
    George Orwell
    “Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #25
    George Orwell
    “Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”
    George Orwell, Why I Write

  • #26
    George Orwell
    “The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.”
    George Orwell, In Front of Your Nose: 1945-1950

  • #27
    Samuel Shem
    “Life's like a penis; When it's soft you can't beat it; When it's hard you get screwed. - The Fat Man, Medical Resident in The House of God”
    Samuel Shem, The House of God

  • #28
    Salman Rushdie
    “To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?”
    Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

  • #29
    J.D. Salinger
    “...I'm sick of it. I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I'm sick of myself and everybody else that wants to make some kind of a splash.”
    J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

  • #30
    Khaled Hosseini
    “Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.”
    Khaled Hosseini



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