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  • #1
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”
    J.R.R. Tolkien

  • #2
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

  • #3
    Leonard Cohen
    “Do not be a magician - be magic!”
    Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers

  • #4
    Fernando Pessoa
    “Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
    Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

  • #5
    Zadie Smith
    “Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.”
    Zadie Smith, White Teeth

  • #6
    Francesco Petrarca
    “A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.”
    Francesco Petrarch

  • #7
    Nikolai Gogol
    “The more debris there is the more it will show the governor's activity.”
    Nikolai Gogol, The Government Inspector

  • #8
    Douglas Adams
    “We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.”
    Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

  • #9
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #10
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #11
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #12
    Nigel Warburton
    “Kierkegaard was a Christian, though he hated the Danish Church and couldn't accept the way complacent Christians around him behaved. For him, religion was a heart-wrenching option, not a cosy excuse for a song in church.”
    Nigel Warburton, A Little History of Philosophy

  • #13
    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

  • #14
    Douglas Adams
    “The hotel shop only had two decent books, and I'd written both of them”
    Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

  • #15
    Annie Dillard
    “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
    Annie Dillard, The Writing Life

  • #16
    Annie Dillard
    “She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”
    Annie Dillard, The Living

  • #17
    Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    “Never say more than is necessary.”
    Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  • #18
    Jorge Luis Borges
    “A writer, or any man, must believe that whatever happens to him is an instrument; everything has been given for an end. This is even stronger in the case of the artist. Everything that happens, including humiliations, embarrassments, misfortunes, all has been given like clay, like material for one’s art. One must accept it. For this reason I speak in a poem of the ancient food of heroes: humiliation, unhappiness, discord. Those things are given to us to transform, so that we may make from the miserable circumstances of our lives things that are eternal, or aspire to be so.”
    Jorge Luis Borges, Selected Non-Fictions

  • #19
    Jorge Luis Borges
    “We must not be too prodigal with our angels; they are the last divinities we harbor, and they might fly away.”
    Jorge Luis Borges, Selected Non-Fictions

  • #20
    Lionel Shriver
    “It is never persuasive to argue that you are not the kind of person who does what you are actually doing.”
    Lionel Shriver, The Post-Birthday World

  • #21
    Lionel Shriver
    “Lovers communicate not inside sentences, but between them. Passion lurks within interstice. It is grouting rather than bricks.”
    Lionel Shriver, The Post-Birthday World

  • #22
    Lionel Shriver
    “For the living, death is thievery.”
    Lionel Shriver, The Post-Birthday World

  • #23
    Bill Maher
    “I find that the world is changing much, much faster than I can even bitch about it.”
    Bill Maher, The New New Rules: A Funny Look At How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass

  • #24
    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    Bernard M. Baruch

  • #25
    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    William Shakespeare, As You Like It

  • #26
    Socrates
    “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
    Socrates

  • #27
    Langston Hughes
    “Hold fast to dreams,
    For if dreams die
    Life is a broken-winged bird,
    That cannot fly.”
    Langston Hughes

  • #28
    Langston Hughes
    “Life is for the living.
    Death is for the dead.
    Let life be like music.
    And death a note unsaid.”
    Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems

  • #29
    Sarah Dessen
    “Don't think or judge, just listen.”
    Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

  • #30
    Woody Allen
    “I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
    Woody Allen



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