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“Life is problems. Living is solving problems.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Silverthorn

“Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.”
― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding

“Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. ”
― John Updike

“Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“Everything you can imagine is real.”
― Pablo Picasso

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.”
― Sue Grafton

“Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.”
― Daphne du Maurier

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There's .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. A writer we used to like taught us that. There are days, many of them, when I resent the size of my unbounded set. I want more numbers than I'm likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
― Stephen Fry

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“You like to read?”

She raised an eyebrow. “Don’t you?”
― Sarah J. Maas

“Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
― Raymond Carver

“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“The truth is what I make it. I could set this world on fire and call it rain.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

“I know it is a bad thing to break a promise, but I think now that it is a worse thing to let a promise break you.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, A Northern Light

“There were not so many physical threats that could not be countered with a decent hammer.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played with Fire

“She went around with the attitude that she would rather be beaten to death than take any shit.”
― Stieg Larsson

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

“I've never been lonely. I've been in a room -- I've felt suicidal. I've been depressed. I've felt awful -- awful beyond all -- but I never felt that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering me...or that any number of people could enter that room. In other words, loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've always had this terrible itch for solitude. It's being at a party, or at a stadium full of people cheering for something, that I might feel loneliness. I'll quote Ibsen, "The strongest men are the most alone." I've never thought, "Well, some beautiful blonde will come in here and give me a fuck-job, rub my balls, and I'll feel good." No, that won't help. You know the typical crowd, "Wow, it's Friday night, what are you going to do? Just sit there?" Well, yeah. Because there's nothing out there. It's stupidity. Stupid people mingling with stupid people. Let them stupidify themselves. I've never been bothered with the need to rush out into the night. I hid in bars, because I didn't want to hide in factories. That's all. Sorry for all the millions, but I've never been lonely. I like myself. I'm the best form of entertainment I have. Let's drink more wine!”
― Charles Bukowski

“Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici (by the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe)”
― Faust