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  • #1
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #2
    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

  • #3
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #4
    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    Albert Camus

  • #5
    Beatrix Potter
    “There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.”
    Beatrix Potter

  • #6
    “You can always die. It's living that takes real courage." - Himura Kenshin”
    Watsuki Nobuhiro

  • #7
    Daphne du Maurier
    “But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
    Daphne du Maurier

  • #8
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #9
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #10
    David R. Montgomery
    “…many currently profitable conventional farming methods would become uneconomical if their true costs were incorporated into market pricing. Direct financial subsidies, and failure to include costs of depleting soil fertility and exporting pollutants, continue to encourage practices that degrade the land”
    David R. Montgomery

  • #11
    John Green
    “I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.”
    John Green, Paper Towns

  • #12
    Robert Jordan
    “Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?”
    Robert Jordan

  • #13
    Kathleen Winsor
    “The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.”
    Kathleen Winsor

  • #14
    Shel Silverstein
    “There are no happy endings.
    Endings are the saddest part,
    So just give me a happy middle
    And a very happy start.”
    Shel Silverstein, Every Thing on It

  • #15
    C.J. Cherryh
    “Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed!”
    C. J. Cherryh

  • #16
    Gustave Flaubert
    “There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it”
    Gustave Flaubert

  • #17
    Nawal El Saadawi
    “Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself.”
    Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero

  • #18
    Neal Stephenson
    “See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places,”
    Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

  • #19
    Lyndall Gordon
    “It was her religion to make the best of everything.”
    Lyndall Gordon, Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft – The Unconventional Genius Who Founded Modern Feminism and Influenced Political Philosophy

  • #20
    Zig Ziglar
    “Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”
    Zig Ziglar

  • #21
    Ivan Turgenev
    “We sit in the mud, my friend, and reach for the stars.”
    Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

  • #22
    Neil Gaiman
    “Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #23
    J.G. Ballard
    “Perhaps the future belongs to magic, and it's we women who control magic.”
    J. G. Ballard, Rushing to Paradise

  • #24
    Andrea Barrett
    “We write in response to what we read and learn; and in the end we write out of our deepest selves.”
    Andrea Barrett

  • #25
    Shelby Foote
    “I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears.”
    Shelby Foote

  • #26
    Voltaire
    “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
    Voltaire

  • #27
    Madeleine L'Engle
    “A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
    Madeleine L'Engle

  • #28
    Thomas Paine
    “The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
    Thomas Paine, A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North America

  • #29
    David  Mitchell
    “My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”
    David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

  • #30
    Ayn Rand
    “If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”
    Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged



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