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“Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.”
― Sean O'Casey

“Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”
― Erica Jong

“I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?”
― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

“In love, no question is ever preposterous.”
― Andre Brink, Before I Forget

“Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes,' otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.”
― Ian Fleming

“Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.”
― Clare Boothe Luce

“You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read...”
― Keri Hulme, The Bone People

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.”
― Phyllis McGinley

“I am a citizen of the world.”
― Sylvia Beach

“Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling - I can so well remember it. There was always something more - behind and beyond everything - to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.”
― Kate Greenaway

“Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.”
― Ben Okri

“The future is now. It's time to grow up and be strong. Tomorrow may well be too late.”
― Neil LaBute, Reasons to Be Pretty

“Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.”
― Ovid

“I live for coincidences. They briefly give to me the illusion or the hope that there's a pattern to my life, and if there's a pattern, then maybe I'm moving toward some kind of destiny where it's all explained.”
― Jonathan Ames, My Less Than Secret Life: A Diary, Fiction, Essays

“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
― Louis L'Amour

“I think; therefore I am.”
― Rene Descartes

“Never forget, Caelius, that a great man makes his luck. Luck is there for everyone to seize. Most of us miss our chances; we're blind to our luck. He never misses a chance because he's never blind to the opportunity of the moment.”
― Colleen McCullough, Caesar

“I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
― John Cheever

“Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.”
― Dorothea Lange

“Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.”
― Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock

“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle

“No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Lost Princess of Oz

“There's something to be said about a slightly plump person—you have just enough of too much.”
― Jamaica Kincaid

“It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.”
― W.G. Sebald, Vertigo

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
― Margaret Fuller

“There is nobility in the struggle, you don't have to win.”
― Sharon Pollock

“The helpful thought for which you look
Is written somewhere in a book.”
― Edward Gorey

“I know of a cure for everything: salt water...in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.”
― Karen Blixen

“It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated