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  • #1
    Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
    “Do not complain beneath the stars about the lack of bright spots in your life.”
    Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

  • #2
    Italo Svevo
    “You see things less clearly when you open your eyes too wide. ”
    Italo Svevo, Zeno's Conscience

  • #3
    Jean Racine
    “Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.”
    Jean Racine

  • #4
    David Sedaris
    “As a child I assumed that when I reached adulthood, I would have grown-up thoughts.”
    David Sedaris, Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc.

  • #5
    Thea von Harbou
    “The mediator between head and hands must be the heart!”
    Thea von Harbou, Metropolis

  • #6
    Maria Edgeworth
    “If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.”
    Maria Edgeworth

  • #7
    Alan Alda
    “Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”
    Alan Alda

  • #8
    Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
    “Written words can also sing.”
    Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Dreams in a Time of War

  • #9
    Alan Paton
    “I have always found that actively loving
    saves one from a morbid preoccupation
    with the shortcomings of society.”
    Alan Paton

  • #10
    Edmund Burke
    “Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar.”
    Edmund Burke

  • #11
    Emily Hahn
    “The steward just asked me if I was not afraid to travel alone, and I said, "Why, it is life.”
    Emily Hahn, Congo Solo: Misadventures Two Degrees North

  • #12
    A.A. Milne
    “People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”
    A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

  • #13
    Gloria Naylor
    “But I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.”
    Gloria Naylor

  • #14
    J.M. Coetzee
    “Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?”
    J.M. Coetzee

  • #15
    Toni Morrison
    “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
    Toni Morrison

  • #16
    “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
    Elizabeth Appell

  • #17
    George Moore
    “We humans are more complicated than animals, and we love through the imagination.”
    George Moore

  • #18
    Tom Wolfe
    “You never realize how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.”
    Tom Wolfe

  • #19
    Khaled Hosseini
    “I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”
    Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

  • #20
    Clare Boothe Luce
    “Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.”
    Clare Boothe Luce

  • #21
    Kate Greenaway
    “Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling - I can so well remember it. There was always something more - behind and beyond everything - to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.”
    Kate Greenaway

  • #22
    Neil LaBute
    “The future is now. It's time to grow up and be strong. Tomorrow may well be too late.”
    Neil LaBute, Reasons to Be Pretty

  • #23
    Ovid
    “Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.”
    Ovid

  • #24
    Phyllis McGinley
    “A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.”
    Phyllis McGinley

  • #25
    Louis L'Amour
    “Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
    Louis L'Amour

  • #26
    Erica Jong
    “Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”
    Erica Jong

  • #27
    Mario Vargas Llosa
    “Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating the words in books into images enriched my life, breaking the barriers of time and space...”
    Mario Vargas Llosa

  • #28
    Seán O'Casey
    “Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.”
    Sean O'Casey

  • #29
    René Descartes
    “I think; therefore I am.”
    Rene Descartes

  • #30
    Washington Irving
    “There is a sacredness in tears....They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.”
    Washington Irving



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