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  • #1
    Alan Bradley
    “Whenever I'm with other people, part of me shrinks a little. Only when I am alone can I fully enjoy my own company.”
    Alan Bradley, A Red Herring Without Mustard

  • #2
    Ray Bradbury
    “Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?"
    "Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you.”
    Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

  • #3
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

  • #4
    Stella Gibbons
    “Well, when I am fifty-three or so I would like to write a novel as good as Persuasion but with a modern setting, of course. For the next thirty years or so I shall be collecting material for it. If anyone asks me what I work at, I shall say, 'Collecting material'. No one can object to that.”
    Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm

  • #5
    Maria Semple
    “That's right,' she told the girls. 'You are bored. And I'm going to let you in on a little secret about life. You think it's boring now? Well, it only gets more boring. The sooner you learn it's on you to make life interesting, the better off you'll be.”
    Maria Semple, Where'd You Go, Bernadette

  • #6
    Dodie Smith
    “Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.”
    Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

  • #7
    Joseph Heller
    “Why are they going to disappear him?'
    I don't know.'
    It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good grammar.”
    Joseph Heller, Catch-22

  • #8
    John Kennedy Toole
    “I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.”
    John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

  • #9
    Mary Ann Shaffer
    “Have you ever noticed that when your mind is awakened or drawn to someone new, that person's name suddenly pops up everywhere you go? My friend Sophie calls it coincidence, and Mr. Simpless, my parson friend, calls it Grace. He thinks that if one cares deeply about someone or something new one throws a kind of energy out into the world, and "fruitfulness" is drawn in. ”
    Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

  • #10
    Mary Ann Shaffer
    “I sometimes think I prefer suitors in books rather than right in front of me. How awful, backward, cowardly, and mentally warped that will be if it turns out to be true.”
    Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

  • #11
    Rod Serling
    “Being like everybody is the same as being nobody.”
    Rod Serling

  • #12
    Alan Bradley
    “Was it wrong to be so deceitful? Well, yes, it probably was. But if God hadn’t wanted me to be the way I am, He would have arranged to have me born a haddock instead of Flavia de Luce—wouldn’t He?”
    Alan Bradley, As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust

  • #13
    Walker Evans
    “Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.”
    Walker Evans

  • #14
    Dorothy Parker
    “The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”
    Dorothy Parker

  • #15
    Louise Fitzhugh
    “Ole Golly: You know what? You're an individual, and that makes people nervous. And it's gonna keep making people nervous for the rest of your life.”
    Louise Fitzhugh

  • #16
    Stella Gibbons
    “One of the disadvantages of almost universal education was the fact that all kinds of persons acquired a familiarity with one's favorite writers. It gave one a curious feeling; it was like seeing a drunken stranger wrapped in one's dressing gown.”
    Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm

  • #17
    Leila Sales
    “I believe that a person's taste in music tells you a lot about them. In some cases, it tells you everything you need to know.”
    Leila Sales, This Song Will Save Your Life

  • #18
    Joseph Heller
    “You have a morbid aversion to dying. You probably resent the fact that you're at war and might get your head blown off any second."

    "I more than resent it, sir. I'm absolutely incensed."

    "You have deep-seated survival anxieties. And you don't like bigots, bullies, snobs, or hypocrites. Subconsciously there are many people you hate."

    "Consciously, sir, consciously," Yossarian corrected in an effort to help. "I hate them consciously."

    "You're antagonistic to the idea of being robbed, exploited, degraded, humiliated, or deceived. Misery depresses you. Ignorance depresses you. Persecution depresses you. Violence depresses you. Corruption depresses you. You know, it wouldn't surprise me if you're a manic-depressive!"

    "Yes, sir. Perhaps I am."

    "Don't try to deny it."

    "I'm not denying it, sir," said Yossarian, pleased with the miraculous rapport that finally existed between them. "I agree with all you've said.”
    Joseph Heller, Catch-22

  • #19
    Gillian Flynn
    “A lot of people lacked that gift: knowing when to fuck off.”
    Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

  • #20
    Roald Dahl
    “Matilda said, "Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable...”
    Roald Dahl, Matilda

  • #21
    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #22
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

  • #23
    Joseph Heller
    “They're trying to kill me," Yossarian told him calmly.
    No one's trying to kill you," Clevinger cried.
    Then why are they shooting at me?" Yossarian asked.
    They're shooting at everyone," Clevinger answered. "They're trying to kill everyone."
    And what difference does that make?”
    Joseph Heller, Catch-22

  • #24
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

  • #25
    Shel Silverstein
    “Draw a crazy picture,
    Write a nutty poem,
    Sing a mumble-gumble song,
    Whistle through your comb.
    Do a loony-goony dance
    'Cross the kitchen floor,
    Put something silly in the world
    That ain't been there before.”
    Shel Silverstein

  • #26
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano

  • #27
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “It's nice to be nice.”
    Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

  • #28
    Ray Bradbury
    “Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.”
    Ray Bradbury

  • #29
    Ray Bradbury
    “Stuff your eyes with wonder. Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there were, it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping its life away. To hell with that . Shake the tree and knock the great sloth down on his ass.”
    Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

  • #30
    Roald Dahl
    “A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
    Roald Dahl, The Twits



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