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  • #1
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #2
    Neal Shusterman
    “I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.”
    Neal Shusterman, Unwind

  • #3
    Alexander McCall Smith
    “It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.”
    Alexander McCall Smith, Morality for Beautiful Girls

  • #4
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

  • #5
    Harlan Ellison
    “If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.”
    Harlan Ellison

  • #6
    Steven Wright
    “I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.”
    Steven Wright

  • #7
    Charles Bukowski
    “What is your advice to young writers?”
    “Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.”
    Charles Bukowski, Hot Water Music

  • #8
    Moses Hadas
    “Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it.”
    Moses Hadas

  • #9
    Manny Rayner
    “There's nothing wrong with giving up all your principles for a suitable financial reward. It is indeed the basis of our society.”
    Manny Rayner

  • #10
    Simon R. Green
    “It's hard to maintain a reputation for being grim and mysterious when you're accompanied by a brightly clad young thing, skipping merrily along at your side, holding your hand, and smiling sweetly on one and all.”
    Simon R. Green, The Unnatural Inquirer

  • #11
    Jane Austen
    “That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #12
    Andrew McEwan
    “The worst mistake a writer can make is to assume everyone has an imagination.”
    Andrew McEwan

  • #13
    Fran Lebowitz
    “Food is an important part of a balanced diet.”
    Fran Lebowitz

  • #14
    Don Marquis
    “If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you.”
    Don Marquis

  • #15
    William Shakespeare
    “The prince of darkness is a gentleman!”
    William Shakespeare, King Lear

  • #16
    Terry Pratchett
    “You know, you're rather amusingly wrong.”
    Terry Pratchett, Maskerade

  • #17
    John Fowles
    “He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal.”
    John Fowles, The Magus

  • #18
    Anne Frank
    “Who else but me is ever going to read these letters?”
    Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

  • #19
    Criss Jami
    “I would rather be an artist than a leader. Ironically, a leader has to follow the rules.”
    Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

  • #20
    “I'd rather be dead than singing 'Satisfaction' when I'm 45.”
    Mick Jagger

  • #21
    “The cinema is an invention without any future.”
    Louis Lumière

  • #22
    Jacqueline Kelly
    “I had never seen a real live dead person.”
    jacqueline kelly

  • #23
    Barack Obama
    “But you see, a rich country like America can perhaps afford to be stupid.”
    Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

  • #24
    Mark Twain
    “Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.”
    Mark Twain

  • #25
    Ljupka Cvetanova
    “If time is money and you wasted my time, then give me back my money!”
    Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

  • #26
    Rebecca Makkai
    “The whole damn century would've made more sense backwards. Where we ended is worse than where we began.”
    Rebecca Makkai, The Hundred-Year House

  • #27
    Tobias Wolff
    “I'm a survivor, " I said. But I didn't think that claim would carry much weight in an obituary.”
    Tobias Wolff, The Night in Question

  • #28
    “Your history flows from your hands write good chapters with them"

    RjS”
    rassool jibraeel snyman

  • #29
    Ljupka Cvetanova
    “Beauty is in the eye of the jury.”
    Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

  • #30
    Holly Goldberg Sloan
    “It was ironic that the kids who didn't go to school would be punished with the threat of being kicked out.”
    Holly Goldberg Sloan, Counting by 7s



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