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  • #1
    Terry Pratchett
    “The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
    Terry Pratchett, Diggers

  • #2
    Jasper Fforde
    “After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer's breeze on their face, they should reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer - perhaps more.”
    Jasper Fforde, The Well of Lost Plots

  • #3
    Jack London
    “Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club.”
    Jack London

  • #4
    Patricia A. McKillip
    “Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps. It must be fed; it cannot be ignored.”
    Patricia A. McKillip

  • #5
    Corrie ten Boom
    “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
    Corrie Ten Boom, Clippings from My Notebook

  • #6
    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

  • #7
    Maya Angelou
    “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
    Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

  • #8
    Mark Strand
    “Each moment is a place
    you've never been.”
    Mark Strand, New Selected Poems

  • #9
    J.M. Barrie
    “I'm not young enough to know everything.”
    J.M. Barrie, The Admirable Crichton

  • #10
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    “The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.”
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea

  • #11
    E.B. White
    “I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
    E. B. White

  • #12
    William Makepeace Thackeray
    “Good humor may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society.”
    William Makepeace Thackeray, Sketches and Travels, Etc.

  • #13
    The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.
    “The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.”
    William H. Gass, A Temple of Texts

  • #14
    W. Somerset Maugham
    “There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
    W. Somerset Maugham

  • #16
    “Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.”
    Margaret Lee Runbeck

  • #17
    Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
    “A man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.”
    Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Autocrat of the Breakfast Table

  • #18
    François Mauriac
    “If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.”
    Francois Mauriac

  • #19
    Tyler Edwards
    “Love only fails when we fail to love.”
    Tyler Edwards, Zombie Church: Breathing Life Back into the Body of Christ

  • #20
    Roald Dahl
    “Don't gobblefunk around with words.”
    Roald Dahl, The BFG

  • #21
    Charles R. Swindoll
    “Anything under God's control is never out of control.”
    Charles Swindoll

  • #22
    Desmond Tutu
    “Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
    Desmond Tutu

  • #23
    “A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.”
    John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy

  • #24
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.”
    Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination

  • #25
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    “Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Literary Remains

  • #26
    Henry Ford
    “Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”
    Henry Ford

  • #27
    George S. Patton Jr.
    “If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.”
    George S. Patton

  • #28
    “Your life is your garden
    and your thoughts are your seeds,
    so if your life isn't awesome
    you've been watering the weeds.”
    Terry Prince

  • #29
    William Blake
    “To see a World in a Grain of Sand
    And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
    Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
    And Eternity in an hour.”
    William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

  • #30
    Stephen Jay Gould
    “The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.”
    Stephen Jay Gould

  • #31
    Randy Pausch
    “Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.”
    Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture



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