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  • #1
    I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
    “I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
    Sarah Williams

  • #2
    John Green
    “What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”
    John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

  • #3
    Ingmar Bergman
    “Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.”
    Ingmar Bergman

  • #4
    Mark Twain
    “When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
    Mark Twain

  • #5
    George Carlin
    “There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. ”
    George Carlin

  • #6
    L. Frank Baum
    “No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.”
    L. Frank Baum, The Lost Princess of Oz

  • #7
    Émile Zola
    “Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.”
    Emile Zola

  • #8
    Henri Murger
    “The first duty of wine is to be red. Don't talk to me of your white wines.”
    Henry Murger

  • #9
    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

  • #10
    Irwin Shaw
    “There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”
    Irwin Shaw

  • #11
    Kenneth Rexroth
    “Crooked cards and straight whiskey,
    Slow horses and fast women.”
    Kenneth Rexroth

  • #12
    Herman Melville
    “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
    Herman Melville

  • #13
    Robert Frost
    “The Road Not Taken

    Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
    And sorry I could not travel both
    And be one traveler, long I stood
    And looked down one as far as I could
    To where it bent in the undergrowth;

    Then took the other, as just as fair,
    And having perhaps the better claim,
    Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
    Though as for that the passing there
    Had worn them really about the same,

    And both that morning equally lay
    In leaves no step had trodden black.
    Oh, I kept the first for another day!
    Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
    I doubted if I should ever come back.

    I shall be telling this with a sigh
    Somewhere ages and ages hence:
    Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
    I took the one less traveled by,
    And that has made all the difference.”
    Robert Frost

  • #14
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

  • #15
    Frederick Douglass
    “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
    Frederick Douglass

  • #16
    Eileen Chang
    “Between memory and reality there are awkward discrepancies...”
    Eileen Chang

  • #17
    Roald Dahl
    “So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
    Roald Dahl

  • #18
    Geraldine Brooks
    “For to know a man's library is, in some measure, to know his mind.”
    Geraldine Brooks, March

  • #19
    Mary  Stewart
    “Every life has death and every light has shadow. Be content to stand in the light and let the shadow fall where it will.”
    Mary Stewart, The Hollow Hills

  • #20
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #21
    Elizabeth Bishop
    “The art of losing isn't hard to master;
    so many things seemed filled with the intent
    to be lost that their loss is no disaster”
    Elizabeth Bishop, The Complete Poems 1927-1979

  • #22
    Harvey Pekar
    “Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.”
    Harvey Pekar

  • #23
    Italo Calvino
    “A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
    Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

  • #24
    James  Jones
    “That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.”
    James Jones, From Here to Eternity

  • #25
    Henry Green
    “The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.”
    Henry Green

  • #26
    Ivan Turgenev
    “If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”
    Ivan Turgenev

  • #27
    Alan Lightman
    “Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.”
    Alan Lightman, Einstein’s Dreams

  • #28
    John Milton
    “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
    John Milton, Paradise Lost

  • #29
    “Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”
    Steven Spielberg

  • #30
    Noël Coward
    “It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”
    Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit



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