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  • #1
    Oh, please don't go—we'll eat you up—we love you so!
    “Oh, please don't go—we'll eat you up—we love you so!”
    Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are

  • #2
    Saul Bellow
    “You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
    Saul Bellow

  • #3
    Marilyn Monroe
    “Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #4
    Victor Hugo
    “Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.”
    Victor Hugo

  • #5
    Constantin Brâncuși
    “When we are no longer children we are already dead”
    Constantin Brancusi

  • #6
    Emma Goldman
    “If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution.”
    Emma Goldman

  • #7
    Emma Goldman
    “When we can't dream any longer we die.”
    Emma Goldman

  • #8
    Emma Goldman
    “The philosophy of Atheism represents a concept of life without any metaphysical Beyond or Divine Regulator. It is the concept of an actual, real world with its liberating, expanding and beautifying possibilities, as against an unreal world, which, with its spirits, oracles, and mean contentment has kept humanity in helpless degradation.”
    Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays

  • #9
    Albert Einstein
    “Creativity is intelligence having fun.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #10
    Albert Einstein
    “A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #11
    Albert Einstein
    “Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #12
    Benjamin Franklin
    “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
    Benjamin Franklin

  • #13
    Miguel Torga
    “May the sun come, it's a new day; In the pure land of fantasy; That our darkness enlightened”
    Miguel Torga

  • #14
    Maurice Sendak
    “And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.”
    Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are
    tags: love

  • #15
    Maurice Sendak
    “I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more.”
    Maurice Sendak

  • #16
    Maurice Sendak
    “You cannot write for children. They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them. ”
    Maurice Sendak

  • #17
    Charles Bukowski
    “We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #18
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #19
    Arthur Plotnik
    “You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside you. And we edit to let the fire show through the smoke.”
    Arthur Plotnik

  • #21
    Karen Blixen
    “When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.”
    Isak Dinesen

  • #23
    Paulo Coelho
    “And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  • #24
    Paulo Coelho
    “It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  • #25
    Paulo Coelho
    “So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  • #26
    C.S. Lewis
    “I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. You can then take it down from some upper shelf, dust it, and tell me what you think of it. I shall probably be too deaf to hear, and too old to understand a word you say, but I shall still be your affectionate Godfather, C. S. Lewis.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

  • #27
    C.S. Lewis
    “and the whole forest would give itself up to jollification for weeks on end.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

  • #28
    The pearls weren't really white, they were a warm oyster beige, with little knots in
    “The pearls weren't really white, they were a warm oyster beige, with little knots in between so if they broke, you only lost one. I wished my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart.”
    Janet Fitch, White Oleander

  • #29
    Janet Fitch
    “Their love as a dragonfly, skimming over echo park, stoppin to visit the lotus. Eating dreams and drinking blue sky.”
    Janet Fitch, Paint it Black

  • #30
    Paulo Coelho
    “Dreamers can't be tamed.”
    Paulo Coelho

  • #31
    Daphne du Maurier
    “A dreamer, I walked enchanted, and nothing held me back.”
    Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

  • #32
    Jack Kerouac
    “[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
    Jack Kerouac, On the Road



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