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“The proof of the pudding is the eating.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.”
― W.S. Merwin

“Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?”
― Christopher Paolini

“I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.”
― Sharon Olds

“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
― C.S. Lewis

“What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who interests his heart in everything.”
― Laurence Sterne

“Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.”
― Leonard Woolf

“Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your vocation.”
― Aristotle

“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.”
― Bill Nye

“Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial.”
― George Saunders

“We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.”
― Noam Chomsky

“Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.”
― James Thurber

“The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

“Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore meet its own extinguishment.”
― Edna O'Brien, In the Forest

“Funny, when you finally faced reality, it was amazing how clearly you could see things.”
― Mary Higgins Clark, Loves Music, Loves to Dance

“It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.”
― Anne Brontë

“Quotable quotes are coins rubbed smooth by circulation.”
― Louis Menand

“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”
― Francis Bacon

“One can acquire everything in solitude except character.”
― Stendhal, Five Short Novels of Stendhal

“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Mark Twain

“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”
― Confucious

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
― Tom Bodett

“There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”
― Irwin Shaw

“The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. ”
― Michel de Montaigne

“What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.”
― Ira Glass

“I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed