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  • #1
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #2
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

  • #3
    Christopher  Morley
    “There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”
    Christopher Morley, Pipefuls

  • #4
    Peter Shaffer
    “The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.”
    Peter Shaffer, Five Finger Exercise

  • #5
    Lois Lowry
    “It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.”
    Lois Lowry

  • #6
    Joseph Brodsky
    “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
    Joseph Brodsky

  • #7
    Carmen Laforet
    “Tal vez el sentido de la vida para una mujer consiste únicamente en ser descubierta así, mirada de manera que ella misma se sienta irradiante de luz.”
    Carmen Laforet, Nada

  • #8
    Carmen Laforet
    “¿Quién puede entender los mil hilos que unen las almas de los hombres y el alcance de sus palabras?”
    Carmen Laforet, Nada
    tags: alma

  • #9
    Carmen Laforet
    “Me parece que de nada vale correr si siempre ha de irse por el mismo camino, cerrado, de nuestra personalidad. Unos seres nacen para vivir, otros para trabajar, y otros para mirar la vida. Yo tenia un pequeño y ruin papel de espectadora. Imposible salirme de él. Imposible libertarme. Una tremenda congoja fue para mí lo único real en aquellos momentos.”
    Carmen Laforet, Nada

  • #10
    Cassandra Clare
    “One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #11
    Holly Black
    “The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.”
    Holly Black, White Cat

  • #12
    Walt Whitman
    “Resist much, obey little.”
    Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

  • #13
    Federico García Lorca
    “To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”
    Federico García Lorca, Blood Wedding and Yerma

  • #14
    Carmen Laforet
    “Esos desechos de celuloide, esos sobrantes en la película del recuerdo de mi vida son los que hoy intento proyectar en la pantalla de la memoria, los que hoy me parecen, aun en su confusión, tan vívidos y tan cercanos.”
    Carmen Laforet

  • #15
    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

  • #16
    Gregory Maguire
    “People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.”
    Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

  • #17
    William Styron
    “A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
    William Styron, Conversations with William Styron

  • #18
    Joyce Carol Oates
    “I never change, I simply become more myself.”
    Joyce Carol Oates, Solstice

  • #19
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey

  • #20
    Walter  Scott
    “Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.”
    Walter Scott, The Heart of Mid-Lothian

  • #21
    Frank McCourt
    “You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
    Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes

  • #22
    François Mauriac
    “If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.”
    Francois Mauriac

  • #23
    Frank Zappa
    “If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #24
    Frank Zappa
    “If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #25
    Frank Zappa
    “Information is not knowledge.
    Knowledge is not wisdom.
    Wisdom is not truth.
    Truth is not beauty.
    Beauty is not love.
    Love is not music.
    Music is THE BEST.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #26
    Frank Zappa
    “A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #27
    Frank Zappa
    “Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.”
    Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book

  • #28
    Frank Zappa
    “It's better to have something to remember than anything to regret.”
    Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book

  • #29
    Frank Zappa
    “There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #30
    Frank Zappa
    “Art is making something out of nothing, and selling it.”
    Frank Zappa



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