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  • #1
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #2
    Steve Jobs
    “Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
    Steve Jobs

  • #3
    Tadeusz Borowski
    “What a curious power words have.”
    Tadeusz Borowski, This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen

  • #4
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #5
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #6
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #7
    Albert Einstein
    “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #8
    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    William Shakespeare, As You Like It

  • #9
    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

  • #10
    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

  • #11
    Christopher Paolini
    “Until we invent telepathy, books are our best choice for understanding the rest of humanity.”
    Christopher Paolini

  • #12
    Don DeLillo
    “Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.”
    Don DeLillo, Conversations with Don Delillo

  • #13
    Jamie Lee Curtis
    “I'm uninterested in superheroes. I am only interested in real stories, real people, real connection.”
    Jamie Lee Curtis

  • #14
    Paul Celan
    “Poetry is a sort of homecoming.”
    Paul Celan

  • #15
    Gail Sheehy
    “Creativity could be described as letting go of certainties.”
    Gail Sheehy

  • #16
    Louisa May Alcott
    “Human minds are more full of mysteries than any written book and more changeable than the cloud shapes in the air.”
    Louisa May Alcott, The Abbot's Ghost: A Christmas Story

  • #17
    Elizabeth Berg
    “There is love in holding and there is love in letting go.”
    Elizabeth Berg, The Year of Pleasures

  • #18
    Joyce Cary
    “To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.”
    Joyce Cary, The Horse's Mouth

  • #19
    Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
    “Do not complain beneath the stars about the lack of bright spots in your life.”
    Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

  • #20
    Sarah E. Wright
    “Shades of a new morning standing still are worse than the shades of night. At least a person can understand the dark of night. It’s not fickle like the day.”
    Sarah E. Wright, This Child's Gonna Live

  • #21
    George Saunders
    “It was that impossible thing: happiness that does not wilt to reveal the thin shoots of some new desire rising from within it.”
    George Saunders, Tenth of December

  • #22
    Grace Paley
    “Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.”
    Grace Paley

  • #23
    John Osborne
    “Why don't we have a little game? Let's pretend that we're human beings, and that we're actually alive.”
    John Osborne, Look Back in Anger

  • #24
    Sarah J. Maas
    “This war,” she said quietly, “is but the second movement in a game that has been played since those ancient days across the sea.”
    Sarah J. Maas, Empire of Storms

  • #25
    Gillian Flynn
    “A lot of people lacked that gift: knowing when to fuck off.”
    Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

  • #26
    Gillian Flynn
    “Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it.”
    Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

  • #27
    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    William W. Purkey

  • #28
    Shirley Jackson
    “No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.”
    Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

  • #29
    Muriel Rukeyser
    “The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”
    Muriel Rukeyser

  • #30
    Patricia Highsmith
    “Obsessions are the only things that matter.”
    Patricia Highsmith



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