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  • #1
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “But when we crave power over life—endless wealth, unassailable safety, immortality—then desire becomes greed. And if knowledge allies itself to that greed, then comes evil. Then the balance of the world is swayed, and ruin weighs heavy in the scale.”
    Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore

  • #2
    Neil Gaiman
    “Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections

  • #3
    Ford Madox Ford
    “Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you.”
    Ford Maddox Ford

  • #4
    Neil Gaiman
    “It's still National Library Week. You should be especially nice to a librarian today, or tomorrow. Sometime this week, anyway. Probably the librarians would like tea. Or chocolates. Or a reliable source of funding.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #5
    Anaïs Nin
    “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
    Anaïs Nin

  • #6
    W.H. Auden
    “Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.”
    W. H. Auden

  • #7
    John  Adams
    “Let us tenderly and kindly cherish therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write .”
    John Adams, The works of John Adams,: Second President of the United States

  • #8
    Benjamin Franklin
    “Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

    [misquote of a letter about wine, see quotes/831031]”
    Benjamin Franklin

  • #9
    Alton Brown
    “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.”
    Alton Brown, Feasting on Asphalt: The River Run

  • #10
    George Orwell
    “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
    George Orwell

  • #11
    George F. Will
    “Football combines two of the worst things in American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.”
    George Will

  • #12
    Karen Blixen
    “Do you know a cure for me?"

    "Why yes," he said, "I know a cure for everything. Salt water."

    "Salt water?" I asked him.

    "Yes," he said, "in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.”
    Isak Dinesen, Seven Gothic Tales

  • #13
    Henry Ward Beecher
    “Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
    Henry Ward Beecherr

  • #15
    Ray Bradbury
    “I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.”
    Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

  • #16
    Pablo Picasso
    “Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy.”
    Pablo Picasso

  • #17
    William Golding
    “Language fits over experience like a straight jacket.”
    William Golding

  • #18
    Charles William Eliot
    “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
    Charles W. Eliot

  • #19
    Edmund Wilson
    “No two persons ever read the same book.”
    Edmund Wilson

  • #20
    T.S. Eliot
    “We shall not cease from exploration
    And the end of all our exploring
    Will be to arrive where we started
    And know the place for the first time.”
    T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets

  • #21
    Richard P. Feynman
    “I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.”
    Richard P. Feynman

  • #22
    Francis Bacon
    “Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
    Sir Francis Bacon

  • #23
    Sholom Aleichem
    “No matter how bad things get, you've got to go on living, even if it kills you.”
    Sholem Aleichem

  • #24
    Kurt Weill
    “Who is the greater criminal: he who robs a bank or he who founds one?
    (Three Penny Opera)”
    Kurt Weill

  • #25
    J.B.S. Haldane
    “The Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.”
    J.B.S. Haldane, Possible Worlds

  • #26
    Isaac Asimov
    “Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.”
    Isaac Asimov

  • #27
    Julia Spencer-Fleming
    “He stomped away like a pint-sized Godzilla looking for Tokyo.”
    Julia Spencer-Fleming, I Shall Not Want

  • #28
    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

  • #29
    Ernest Hemingway
    “We had a Corsican wine that had great authority and a low price. It was a very Corsican wine and you could dilute it by half with water and still receive its message.
    A Moveable Feast”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #30
    Gloria Steinem
    “Women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage”
    Gloria Steinem

  • #31
    Anne Frank
    “Although I'm only fourteen, I know quite well what I want, I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child, I feel quite indepedent of anyone.”
    Anne Frank, The Diary of Anne Frank



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