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  • #1
    Victor Hugo
    “He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
    Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

  • #2
    Richard Wright
    “Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...”
    Richard Wright, Black Boy

  • #3
    Khaled Hosseini
    “But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
    Khaled Hosseini

  • #4
    Honoré de Balzac
    “All happiness depends on courage and work.”
    Honoré de Balzac

  • #5
    Ted  Grant
    “When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in Black and white, you photograph their souls!”
    Ted Grant

  • #6
    Ken Robinson
    “If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.”
    Ken Robinson, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

  • #7
    Ken Robinson
    “Creativity is as important as literacy”
    Ken Robinson

  • #8
    Chuck Klosterman
    “Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”
    Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

  • #9
    Wole Soyinka
    “The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.”
    Wole Soyinka

  • #10
    Jacques Derrida
    “To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.”
    Jacques Derrida

  • #11
    Tony Kushner
    “In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.”
    Tony Kushner, Perestroika

  • #12
    J.K. Rowling
    “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  • #13
    Umberto Eco
    “We live for books.”
    Umberto Eco

  • #14
    Paul Auster
    “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

  • #15
    Edmund Burke
    “Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.”
    Edmund Burke

  • #16
    Sylvia Plath
    “I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

  • #17
    Tom Bodett
    “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

  • #18
    Marion Zimmer Bradley
    “Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.”
    Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Forest House

  • #19
    Mark Twain
    “You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
    Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

  • #20
    R. Buckminster Fuller
    “Dare to be naïve.”
    Richard Buckminster Fuller

  • #21
    Ingmar Bergman
    “Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.”
    Ingmar Bergman

  • #22
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #23
    Stephen Chbosky
    “Sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #24
    Emma Lazarus
    “Give me your tired, your poor,
    Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”
    Emma Lazarus

  • #25
    Sigmund Freud
    “Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”
    Sigmund Freud

  • #26
    Shams Tabrizi
    “A good man complains of no one; he does not look to faults.”
    Shams Of Tabriz

  • #27
    Sharon Olds
    “There is something in me maybe someday
    to be written; now it is folded, and folded,
    and folded, like a note in school.”
    Sharon Olds

  • #28
    Noël Coward
    “It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”
    Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit

  • #29
    George Eliot
    “What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”
    George Eliot

  • #30
    Kahlil Gibran
    “Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself”
    Khalil Gibran, The Prophet



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