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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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