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  • #1
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    Robert Frost

  • #2
    Nicholas Sparks
    “Nothing that’s worthwhile is ever easy. Remember that.”
    Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle

  • #3
    John Green
    “Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.”
    John Green

  • #4
    Saul Bellow
    “You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
    Saul Bellow

  • #5
    Veronica Roth
    “Why do people want to pretend that death is sleep? It isn't. It isn't.”
    Veronica Roth, Divergent

  • #6
    Mahmoud Darwish
    “If the Olive Trees knew the hands that planted them, Their Oil would become Tears.”
    Mahmoud Darwish

  • #7
    Janet Frame
    “There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.”
    Janet Frame

  • #8
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
    Søren Kierkegaard

  • #9
    Michael Crichton
    “If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ”
    Michael Crichton

  • #10
    Confucius
    “Study the past if you would define the future.”
    Confucius

  • #11
    Patricia Briggs
    “A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.”
    Patricia Briggs, Dragon Blood

  • #12
    “We live today amid ritualized anithumanisms. Among those intelligent enough to feel despair, some seek salvation in the literary artist. Artists love flattery; and the scam doesn't work without mystifying the process.

    The weather is unpredictable, but it is not mysterious.

    Wall Street is unpredictable, but it is not mysterious.

    Writing is unpredictable, (like street and sky, there are too many variables.) Its mystery vanishes, like a shadow, the moment the light aimed at your characters turns back upon yourself.”
    Doran Larson

  • #13
    Toba Beta
    “If you do writing, people will store your gigawords.”
    Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

  • #15
    Victor Hugo
    “Joie est mon caractere,
    C'est la faute a Voltaire;
    Misere est mon trousseau
    C'est la faute a Rousseau.
    [Joy is my character,
    'Tis the fault of Voltaire;
    Misery is my trousseau
    'Tis the fault of Rousseau.]
    - Gavroche”
    Victor Hugo

  • #16
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

  • #17
    George Harrison
    “It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.”
    George Harrison

  • #18
    Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    “We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.”
    Franklin D. Roosevelt, Great Speeches

  • #19
    Dennis E. Adonis
    “Saving a worthy relationship is easier than trying to start a new one.”
    Dennis E. Adonis

  • #20
    John Locke
    “Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
    John Locke

  • #21
    Albert Einstein
    “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #22
    Plato
    “Knowledge is the food of the soul.”
    Plato

  • #23
    Paul R. Halmos
    “[Mathematics] is security. Certainty. Truth. Beauty. Insight. Structure. Architecture. I see mathematics, the part of human knowledge that I call mathematics, as one thing—one great, glorious thing. Whether it is differential topology, or functional analysis, or homological algebra, it is all one thing. ... They are intimately interconnected, they are all facets of the same thing. That interconnection, that architecture, is secure truth and is beauty. That's what mathematics is to me.”
    Paul R. Halmos

  • #24
    Tom Wolfe
    “You never realize how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.”
    Tom Wolfe

  • #25
    Ambrose Bierce
    Sweater, n. Garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.”
    Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

  • #26
    Pablo Picasso
    “Everything you can imagine is real.”
    Pablo Picasso

  • #27
    Jess C. Scott
    “When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”
    Jess C. Scott, The Intern

  • #28
    Voltaire
    “Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
    Voltaire

  • #29
    Marilyn Monroe
    “When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #30
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.”
    Jalâl ad-Dîn Rûmî, The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

  • #31
    William Wordsworth
    “The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
    William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads



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