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“The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.”
― Joseph Joubert

“Energy rightly applied and directed will accomplish anything.”
― Nellie Bly

“I said I could and I would. And I did.”
― Nellie Bly, Ten Days in a Mad-House

“[D]on't ever apologise to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't apologise to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to me is that people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important thing is that people read...”
― Neil Gaiman

“I never change, I simply become more myself.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Solstice

“The hikers themselves would not have damaged their own tent in this way, even by accident, so this seems to suggest one thing: Someone from the outside knifed his way through the tent on that terrible night.”
― Donnie Eichar, Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident

“By spring, the suppositional winds were blowing in the direction of a military cover-up. One of the members of the search party who had been on the scene when the remaining bodies were found, had one such theory involving UFOs and temporary insanity.”
― Donnie Eichar, Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident

“None of you understand. I'm not locked up in here with YOU. You're locked up in here with ME.”
― Alan Moore, Watchmen

“Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.”
― Lloyd Alexander

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

“Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
― Stephen King

“My future is quite literally a blank canvas, waiting for me to fill it.”
― Riley Sager, The Last Time I Lied

“I have always felt that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the last sanctuary of the terminally inept.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”
― Margaret Mead

“I prepare for the worst, but hope for the best.”
― Jackie Chan

“I'm good for some things, bad for a lot of things.”
― Jackie Chan, I Am Jackie Chan: My Life in Action

“We're all the same inside.”
― Jackie Chan

“I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.”
― Steve Martin

“We're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won't be able to think.”
― Rod Serling

“Never give up on your friends. Never give up your faith in them. It's when everything is worse than you could ever imagine it could be, that you'll need your friends the most.”
― Graeme Rodaughan, The Dragon's Den

“I value liberty above all else. Without liberty, no other value can be realized.”
― Graeme Rodaughan, The Crane War

“Remember us,
Should any free soul come across this place,
In all the countless centuries yet to be,
May our voices whisper to you from the ageless stones,
Go tell the Spartans, passerby:
That here by Spartan law, we lie.”
― Frank Miller, 300

“I know I'll die someday, but I buy books like an immortal.”
― Jeff Strand

“I want you to believe...to believe in things that you cannot.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
― Ernest Benn

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!”
― Mark A. Cooper, Operation Einstein

“Do you hate people?”

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

“Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.”
― Werner Herzog