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  • #1
    George Orwell
    “War is peace.
    Freedom is slavery.
    Ignorance is strength.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #2
    Stephen  King
    “The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
    Stephen King, The Gunslinger

  • #3
    Gabriel García Márquez
    “Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendía había de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevó a conocer el hielo. Macondo era entonces una aldea de 20 casas de barro y cañabrava construidas a la orilla de un río de aguas diáfanas que se precipitaban por un lecho de piedras pulidas, blancas y enormes como huevos prehistóricos. El mundo era tan reciente, que muchas cosas carecían de nombre, y para mencionarlas había que señalarlas con el dedo".”
    Gabriel García Márquez, Cien años de soledad

  • #4
    Stephen  King
    “I do not aim with my hand; he who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.
    I aim with my eye.

    I do not shoot with my hand; he who shoots with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.
    I shoot with my mind.

    I do not kill with my gun; he who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father.
    I kill with my heart.”
    Stephen King, The Gunslinger

  • #5
    Stephen  King
    “And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live.”
    Stephen King , The Dark Tower

  • #6
    Stephen  King
    “Go now. Our journey is done. And may we meet again, in the clearing, at the end of the path.”
    Stephen King

  • #7
    Stephen  King
    “May you find your Tower, Roland, and breach it, and may you climb to the top!”
    Stephen King, The Dark Tower

  • #8
    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
    Arthur C. Clarke

  • #9
    Arthur C. Clarke
    “. . . Moon-Watcher felt the first faint twinges of a new and potent emotion. It was a vague and diffuse sense of envy--of dissatisfaction with his life. He had no idea of its cause, still less of its cure; but discontent had come into his soul, and he had taken one small step toward humanity.”
    Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey

  • #11
    Isaac Asimov
    “Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
    Isaac Asimov, Foundation

  • #12
    Isaac Asimov
    “Weak emperors mean strong viceroys. ”
    Isaac Asimov, Foundation

  • #13
    Victor Hugo
    “Diamonds are found only in the dark bowels of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought. It seemed to him that after descending into those depths after long groping in the blackest of this darkness, he had at last found one of these diamonds, one of these truths, and that he held it in his hand; and it blinded him to look at it. (pg. 231)”
    Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

  • #14
    Victor Hugo
    “There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.”
    Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

  • #15
    George R.R. Martin
    “... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #16
    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

  • #17
    George R.R. Martin
    “You were made to be kissed, often and well.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

  • #18
    George Bernard Shaw
    “Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
    George Bernard Shaw

  • #19
    George Bernard Shaw
    “You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?”
    George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah

  • #20
    George Bernard Shaw
    “Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
    George Bernard Shaw

  • #21
    Oscar Wilde
    “Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #22
    Oscar Wilde
    “Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #23
    Oscar Wilde
    “Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #24
    Oscar Wilde
    “Every woman is a rebel.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #25
    Oscar Wilde
    “Everything in moderation, including moderation.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #26
    Carl Sagan
    “The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”
    Carl Sagan, Cosmos

  • #27
    Carl Sagan
    “One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.”
    Carl Sagan

  • #28
    Carl Sandburg
    “I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.”
    Carl Sandburg

  • #29
    Orson Scott Card
    “When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them.”
    Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead

  • #30
    Aldous Huxley
    “That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”
    Aldous Huxley, Collected Essays

  • #31
    Aldous Huxley
    “I like being myself. Myself and nasty.”
    Aldous Huxley, Brave New World



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