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“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Keeing busy" is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973-1982

“And it occured to me, standing there, just breathing with her, quiet settling around us, that those might be the three most beautiful words in the English language. We have time.”
― Ransom Riggs, Library of Souls

“The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973-1982

“The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“My belief is that art should not be comforting; for comfort, we have mass entertainment and one another. Art should provoke, disturb, arouse our emotions, expand our sympathies in directions we may not anticipate and may not even wish.”
― Joyce Carol Oates

“…God is a giant quiltmaker. With an infinite variety of designs. And the quilt is grown so big and confusing, the pattern is impossible to see, the squares and diamonds and triangles don’t fit well together anymore, it’s all become meaningless. So He has abandoned it.”
― Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance

“I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees”
― Henry David Thoreau

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

“O teach me how I should forget to think (1.1.224)”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose”
― Mary Shelley

“Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles