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  • #1
    Truman Capote
    “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
    Truman Capote

  • #2
    Truman Capote
    “It may be normal, darling; but I'd rather be natural.”
    Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

  • #3
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    “Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation...none was more alarming than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.”
    Barbara Ehrenreich

  • #4
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    “What you don't necessarily realize when you start selling your time by the hour is that what you're really selling is your life.”
    Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

  • #5
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    “No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.”
    Barbara Ehrenreich

  • #6
    Malcolm Gladwell
    “Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.”
    Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

  • #7
    Malcolm Gladwell
    “The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.”
    Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

  • #8
    Malcolm Gladwell
    “We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for.”
    Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

  • #9
    Phyllis Diller
    “Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance.”
    Phyllis Diller
    tags: humor

  • #10
    J.K. Rowling
    “Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

  • #11
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #12
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    “People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
    Logan Pearsall Smith

  • #13
    Colson Whitehead
    “A monster is a person who has stopped pretending.”
    Colson Whitehead

  • #14
    Georgette Heyer
    “As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.”
    Georgette Heyer, Venetia

  • #15
    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

  • #16
    Charles Darwin
    “If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”
    Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82

  • #17
    John  Williams
    “To read without joy is stupid.”
    John Williams

  • #18
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “My life story is the story of everyone I've ever met.”
    Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

  • #19
    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

  • #20
    Jean Genet
    “Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.”
    Jean Genet

  • #21
    “Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”
    Steven Kloves



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