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  • #1
    Walter de la Mare
    “After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts – like a Chinese nest of boxes – oaks that were acorns that were oaks. Death lies behind us, not in front – in our ancestors, back and back until...”
    Walter de la Mare, The Return

  • #2
    Sarah Bessey
    “Many of the seminal social issues of our time - poverty, lack of education, human trafficking, war and torture, domestic abuse - can track their way to our theology of, or beliefs about, women, which has its roots in what we believe about the nature, purposes, and character of God.”
    Sarah Bessey, Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible's View of Women

  • #3
    Simon S. Tam
    “I believe that reappropriation can be a powerful tool for creating social change. Sometimes, things like irony, satire, or humor are more effective in getting at difficult truths or concepts like white privilege, orientalism, and the exoticization of culture.”
    Simon S. Tam

  • #4
    Philippe Ariès
    “A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.”
    Philippe Ariès

  • #5
    E.E. Cummings
    “Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you're a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself.”
    e.e. cummings

  • #6
    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

  • #7
    Winston S. Churchill
    “The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.”
    Winston S. Churchill

  • #8
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    Mark Twain

  • #9
    “When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.”
    Bernard Meltzer

  • #10
    Stephen  King
    “Maybe there aren't any such things as good friends or bad friends - maybe there are just friends, people who stand by you when you're hurt and who help you feel not so lonely. Maybe they're always worth being scared for, and hoping for, and living for. Maybe worth dying for too, if that's what has to be. No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.”
    Stephen King, It

  • #11
    John   Waters
    “It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.”
    John Waters

  • #12
    George Carlin
    “May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.”
    George Carlin

  • #13
    Samuel Beckett
    “Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.”
    Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable

  • #14
    Arthur Machen
    “It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.”
    Arthur Machen, The Hill of Dreams

  • #15
    Samuel Beckett
    “That is one of the many reasons why I avoid speaking as much as possible. For I always say either too much or too little, which is a terrible thing for a man with a passion for truth like mine.”
    Samuel Beckett, Molloy

  • #16
    Noah Webster
    “The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.”
    Noah Webster

  • #17
    Julian Barnes
    “Life and reading are not separate activities, When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.”
    Julian Barnes, A Life with Books

  • #18
    Mark Twain
    “Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”
    Mark Twain

  • #19
    Niels Bohr
    “An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
    Niels Bohr

  • #20
    Elizabeth Bowen
    “Never to lie is to have no lock to your door, you are never wholly alone”
    Elizabeth Bowen, The House in Paris

  • #21
    “Book-burners try to destroy ideas that differ from their own. Reading does the opposite. It encourages doubt... reading releases you from the limits of yourself.”
    John Carey

  • #22
    Oscar Wilde
    “Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #23
    Thomas Jefferson
    “On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.”
    Thomas Jefferson

  • #24
    Rudyard Kipling
    “Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
    Rudyard Kipling

  • #25
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them...In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night...You - only you - will have stars that can laugh.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, El Principito

  • #26
    Lemony Snicket
    “Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily.”
    Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters

  • #27
    A.A. Milne
    “You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
    A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

  • #28
    A.A. Milne
    “Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
    A.A. Milne

  • #29
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    Robert Frost

  • #30
    Stephen  King
    “Drive away and try to keep smiling. Get a little rock and roll on the radio and go toward all the life there is with all the courage you can find and all the belief you can muster. Be true, be brave, stand.”
    Stephen King, It



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