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  • #1
    Gabriel García Márquez
    “It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.”
    Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  • #2
    Muhammad Ali
    “Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.”
    Muhammad Ali

  • #3
    John Steinbeck
    “There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”
    John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

  • #4
    “Don't forget who your heroes are, what they mean to you, and why they mean that to you.”
    Gale Harold

  • #6
    “There is freedom waiting for you,
    On the breezes of the sky,
    And you ask "What if I fall?"
    Oh but my darling,
    What if you fly?”
    Erin Hanson

  • #7
    J.K. Rowling
    “Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #8
    Steven Moffat
    “Demons run when a good man goes to war
    Night will fall and drown the sun
    When a good man goes to war

    Friendship dies and true love lies
    Night will fall and the dark will rise
    When a good man goes to war

    Demons run, but count the cost
    The battle's won, but the child is lost”
    Steven Moffat

  • #9
    Sylvia Plath
    “I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #10
    Sylvia Plath
    “I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.”
    Sylvia Plath

  • #11
    Sylvia Plath
    “Eternity bores me,
    I never wanted it.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems

  • #12
    “She was broken from moment to moment, watching her world collide she felt lost inside herself. She fell apart for a passion that flamed beneath her. She waited and died a hundred times, it dripped from her pores. The moment she let go, she soared over the stillness like the star she was born to be.”
    robert m drake

  • #13
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #14
    Jon Krakauer
    “We like companionship, see, but we can't stand to be around people for very long. So we go get ourselves lost, come back for a while, then get the hell out again.”
    Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

  • #15
    Jon Krakauer
    “I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth. ”
    Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

  • #16
    Jon Krakauer
    “The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences.”
    Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

  • #17
    Jon Krakauer
    “The trip was to be an odyssey in the fullest sense of the word, an epic journey that would change everything.”
    Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

  • #18
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Wer sich selbst belügt und seine eigenen Lügen anhört, kommt schließlich soweit, dass er keine Wahrheit mehr, weder in sich noch außer sich, zu erkennen vermag [...]”
    Fjodor Dostojewski

  • #19
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #20
    Oscar Wilde
    “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #21
    J.D. Salinger
    “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #22
    John Green
    “Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
    John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

  • #23
    Jane Austen
    “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #24
    Oscar Wilde
    “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #25
    Cassandra Clare
    “Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #26
    Charles William Eliot
    “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
    Charles W. Eliot

  • #27
    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

  • #28
    Stephen  King
    “If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
    Stephen King

  • #29
    Ray Bradbury
    “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
    Ray Bradbury

  • #30
    Fran Lebowitz
    “Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
    Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

  • #31
    Jane Smiley
    “Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
    Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel



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