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    Pseudonymous Bosch
    “Only bad books have good endings.
    If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want the book to end.”
    Pseudonymous Bosch, The Name of This Book Is Secret

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    Neil Gaiman
    “A book is a dream that you hold in your hands."

    (As quoted on BookRiot, June 18, 2013)”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #3
    David Baldacci
    “Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?”
    David Baldacci, The Camel Club

  • #4
    Nikola Tesla
    “Of all things, I liked books best.”
    Nikola Tesla

  • #5
    “Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.”
    Walter H. Cottingham

  • #6
    Wei Hui
    “Crazy people are considered mad by the rest of the society only because their intelligence isn't understood.”
    Wei Hui

  • #7
    Isaac Asimov
    “Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.”
    Isaac Asimov

  • #8
    Akira Kurosawa
    “Man is a genius when he is dreaming.”
    Akira Kurosawa

  • #9
    Ernest Hemingway
    “I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #10
    Albert Camus
    “Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep”
    Albert Camus

  • #11
    Jim  Butcher
    “Sleep is God. Go worship.”
    Jim Butcher, Death Masks

  • #12
    Daniel Pennac
    “Reader's Bill of Rights

    1. The right to not read

    2. The right to skip pages

    3. The right to not finish

    4. The right to reread

    5. The right to read anything

    6. The right to escapism

    7. The right to read anywhere

    8. The right to browse

    9. The right to read out loud

    10. The right to not defend your tastes”
    Daniel Pennac

  • #13
    A.A. Milne
    “You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
    A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

  • #14
    Muhammad Ali
    “Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.”
    Muhammad Ali

  • #15
    Charles Bukowski
    “Do you hate people?”

    “I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
    Charles Bukowski, Barfly

  • #16
    “The one thing in me more powerful than a general misanthropy is an inescapable compassion for individuals.”
    Jasper Sole

  • #17
    Jodi Picoult
    “Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
    Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

  • #18
    Criss Jami
    “Telling an introvert to go to a party is like telling a saint to go to Hell.”
    Criss Jami, Killosophy

  • #19
    E.M. Forster
    “I swear from the bottom of my heart I want to be healed. I want to be like other men, not this outcast whom nobody wants.”
    E.M. Forster, Maurice

  • #20
    Sarah   Williams
    “Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
    I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
    Sarah Williams, Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse

  • #21
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #22
    “Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.”
    Stephen Hawking

  • #23
    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
    Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible

  • #24
    Richard Dawkins
    “Science is interesting, and if you don't agree you can fuck off.

    Note: Dawkins was quoting a former editor of New Scientist Magazine, who is as yet unidentified (possibly Jeremy Webb)”
    Richard Dawkins

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    Neil deGrasse Tyson
    “The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.”
    Neil deGrasse Tyson

  • #27
    “I am a sailor, you're my first mate
    We signed on together, we coupled our fate
    Hauled up our anchor, determined not to fail
    For the heart's treasure, together we set sail
    With no maps to guide us, we steered our own course
    Rode out the storms when the winds were gale force
    Sat out the doldrums in patience and hope
    Working together, we learned how to cope.
    Life is an ocean and love it a boat
    In troubled waters it keeps us afloat
    When we started the voyage there was just me and you
    Now gathered round us we have our own crew
    Together we're in this relationship
    We built it with care to last the whole trip
    Our true destination's not marked on any chart
    We're navigating the shores of the heart”
    John McDermott

  • #28
    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    Albert Camus

  • #29
    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

  • #30
    Jeanette Winterson
    “When you follow a star you know you will never reach that star; rather it will guide you to where you want to go. ... So it is with the world. It will only ever lead you back to yourself.”
    Jeanette Winterson, Boating for Beginners



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