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  • #1
    Adolfo Bioy Casares
    “The sea is endless when you are in a rowboat.”
    Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel

  • #2
    William Shakespeare
    “This above all: to thine own self be true,
    And it must follow, as the night the day,
    Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
    William Shakespeare, Hamlet

  • #3
    E.Y. Harburg
    “Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.”
    E.Y. Harburg

  • #4
    Haruki Murakami
    “If you're in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark”
    Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

  • #5
    John Steinbeck
    “I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
    John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

  • #6
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.”
    Ursula K. Le Guin

  • #7
    Emily Dickinson
    “Not knowing when the dawn will come
    I open every door.”
    Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

  • #8
    “Where you stand determines what you see and what you do not see; it determines also the angle you see it from; a change in where you stand changes everything.”
    Steve De Shazer

  • #9
    Lewis Carroll
    “Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I'll come up; if not, I'll stay down here till I'm someone else.”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

  • #10
    Wallace Stevens
    “Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.”
    Wallace Stevens

  • #11
    William Blake
    “If a thing loves, it is infinite.”
    William Blake

  • #12
    Dylan Thomas
    “Do not go gentle into that good night.
    Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
    Dylan Thomas, In Country Sleep, and Other Poems

  • #13
    Rebecca  Walker
    “. . . when it comes down to it, that’s what life is all about: showing up for the people you love, again and again, until you can’t show up anymore.”
    Rebecca Walker, Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence

  • #14
    Katerina Stoykova Klemer
    “Be nice to your children. They may grow up to be writers.”
    Katerina Stoykova Klemer

  • #15
    Truman Capote
    “To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.”
    Truman Capote, Truman Capote: Conversations

  • #16
    William Wordsworth
    “Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
    William Wordsworth

  • #17
    Lewis Carroll
    “It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
    Lewis Carroll

  • #18
    Lewis Carroll
    “If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

  • #19
    Lewis Carroll
    “I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.”
    Lewis Carroll

  • #20
    Lewis Carroll
    “Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.”
    Lewis Carroll

  • #21
    Lewis Carroll
    “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more, nor less.”
    Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There

  • #22
    Paula Poundstone
    “Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up ’cause they’re looking for ideas.”
    Paula Poundstone

  • #23
    C.S. Lewis
    “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #24
    The constant happiness is curiosity.
    “The constant happiness is curiosity.”
    Alice Munro

  • #25
    Alice Munro
    “I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.

    Alice Munro

  • #26
    Alice Munro
    “Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.”
    Alice Munro
    tags: life

  • #27
    Miranda July
    “All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life—where do they put their body, hour by hour, and how do they cope inside of it.”
    Miranda July, It Chooses You

  • #28
    A.A. Milne
    “Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.”
    A.A. Milne

  • #29
    William Shakespeare
    “Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me.”
    William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

  • #30
    William Shakespeare
    “I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.”
    William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing



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