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  • #1
    Oscar Wilde
    “It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”
    Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

  • #2
    Albert Einstein
    “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #3
    Winston S. Churchill
    “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
    Winston S. Churchill

  • #4
    Lewis Carroll
    “Well, I never heard it before, but it sounds uncommon nonsense.”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

  • #5
    Lewis Carroll
    “If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

  • #6
    Oscar Wilde
    “An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #7
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.”
    Edgar Allan Poe, Ne Pariez Jamais Votre

  • #8
    Pablo Picasso
    “Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.”
    Pablo Picasso

  • #9
    Cathy Guisewite
    “When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.”
    Cathy Guiswite

  • #10
    Jarod Kintz
    “I want my kids to have the things in life that I never had when I was growing up. Things like beards and chest hair.”
    Jarod Kintz, I Want

  • #11
    Benjamin Franklin
    “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
    Benjamin Franklin

  • #12
    Stan Lee
    “With great power comes great responsibility.”
    Stan Lee

  • #14
    Franz Kafka
    “Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #15
    Dorothy Parker
    “I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #16
    Dorothy Parker
    “I hate writing, I love having written.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #17
    Thomas Hardy
    “Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.”
    Thomas Hardy, The Personal Notebooks Of Thomas Hardy

  • #18
    Emily Dickinson
    “Forever is composed of nows.”
    Emily Dickinson

  • #19
    Emily Dickinson
    “To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”
    Emily Dickinson

  • #20
    Jarod Kintz
    “I like to call in sick to work at places where I’ve never held a job. Then when the manager tells me I don’t work there, I tell them I’d like to. But not today, as I’m sick.”
    Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale

  • #21
    Terry Pratchett
    “It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.”
    Terry Pratchett

  • #22
    “We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”
    Stephen Hawking

  • #24
    Jarod Kintz
    “I cut an inch off of every straw I see, just to make the world suck a little less.
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    Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title

  • #25
    Carl Sagan
    “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
    Carl Sagan

  • #25
    Thomas Keneally
    “Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.”
    Thomas Keneally, Schindler’s List

  • #27
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #28
    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

  • #29
    Oscar Wilde
    “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
    Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

  • #30
    Oscar Wilde
    “I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #31
    Oscar Wilde
    “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #32
    Oscar Wilde
    “Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray



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