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"Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks."
Richard Ford

February 16, 1944: Steely-eyed novelist and Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Ford was born in Jackson, Mississippi, 69 years ago today.

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"Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this."
Dave Eggers

February 17, 2000: Thirteen years ago today Dave Eggers published his first book, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.

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"I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else."
Nikos Kazantzakis

February 18, 1883: Prolific Greek writer Nikos Kazantzakis was born 130 years ago today on the island of Crete. He did not publish his best-known work, Zorba the Greek, until 1946.

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"Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength."
Betty Friedan

February 19, 1963: Fifty years ago today, Betty Friedan published her landmark work, The Feminine Mystique, sparking a new wave of feminism.

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"Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
Dylan Thomas

February 20, 1950: Welsh poet Dylan Thomas arrived in New York 63 years ago today, where he began an American speaking tour that cemented his reputation as a literary genius and epic imbiber.

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"Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else."
David Foster Wallace

February 21, 1962: Writer and MacArthur ‘Genius’ award winner David Foster Wallace was born 51 years ago today in Ithaca, New York.

Great quotes Jack. I've been collecting quotes all my life. Just love them :) Thanks for posting these daily :)

No problem Lynn. I live collecting quotes too.

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"Books, Cats, Life is Good."
Edward Gorey

February 22, 1925: Happy Birthday Edward Gorey! The writer and illustrator, who created an entire genre of delightful disasters, was born 88 years ago today.

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He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.

Victor Hugo

February 26, 1802: Romantic French writer Victor Hugo was born 211 years ago today. Les Miserables, his epic novel of love and noble sacrifice, remains incredibly popular.

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Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

February 27, 1807: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s greatest achievement? Becoming the first American writer to earn a living from royalties! He was born 205 years ago today.

Jack wrote: "Quote Of The Day:


Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Loved the quote and the history lesson... I am more like your quote: He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.

Victor Hugo
I often come home with more than....one

February 27, 1807: Henry Wadswo..."

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No medicine cures what happiness cannot.

Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

March 6, 1927: Happy birthday Gabriel Garcia Marquez! The master of magical realism was born 86 years ago today in Aracataca, Colombia.

Jack wrote: "Quote of the Day:


No medicine cures what happiness cannot.

Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

March 6, 1927: Happy birthday Gabriel Garcia Marquez! The master of magical realism was born 86 years ago tod..."

Nice one..

"I don't have nightmares. I give them."
-Stephen King

Kyle~Special K~Rebel Leader~ wrote: ""I don't have nightmares. I give them."
-Stephen King"

hmmmmmm...

"Absolute power corrupts absolutely."
-Anonymous

Kyle~Special K~Rebel Leader~ wrote: ""Absolute power corrupts absolutely."
-Anonymous"

completely

I love that. I say it all day! To strangers even! Ya know...

"A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush."
-Anonymous

Two birds w/ one stone

illegitmati non carborundrum
(don'd let the b******s get you down
-anonymous

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.(Maya Angelou)

Michael wrote: "illegitmati non carborundrum
(don'd let the b******s get you down
-anonymous"

This quotation is used in the novel The Handmaid's Tale but I don't think that is the origin of the saying.

“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
from "Infinite Jest" by David Foster Wallace

Sorry, just realized Jack already put this quote in a while ago - I think it is a good one, though!

"Ain't no thang, blood. Slip me some skin!"
-Kyle Forrest

Not really a quote, but something I hope my friends say about me -

"Don't denounce the chode. It will grow on you."

-Ivana Humpalot

All that glitters may not be gold - but who cares- as long as it glitters!

"I am, I said, to no one there."
-Neil Diamond

"He gave me pleasure."
-Sharon Stone(Basic Instinct)

"When in doubt, whip it out."

-York Hunt

"Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing."

- Clive James

This Day in History: On this day in 1951, J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye was published. The novel, about a troubled 16-year-old named Holden Caulfield, exemplified common feelings of teenage angst and a resistance to growing up. The Catcher in the Rye became one of the most important English novels of the 20th century.

Watch this PBS NewsHour piece about J.D. Salinger's lasting influence on American literature: http://to.pbs.org/18ldXPZ

Hope is the thing with feathers...
- Emily Dickinson

You miss 100% of the chances you don't take.
-Wayne Gretzky

Mary mary, so contrary, had a bird that was so hairy.

-Ice-T

Sometimes the greatest distance is between two people.

"The Painted Veil" by Somerset Maugham

They say that love is more important than money...but have you ever tried to pay your bills with a hug?

A thousand moments that I had just taken for granted - mostly
because I assumed there would be a thousand more...

Second Chance Summer

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

Oscar Wilde

"A hump a day keeps the doctor away."
-Bill Clinton

"I love reading because I only have one life, and one life isn't enough for me."
..

-Abbas Mahmoud al-Akkad

“No history is mute. No matter how much they own it, break it, and lie about it, human history refuses to shut its mouth. Despite deafness and ignorance, the time that was continues to tick inside the time that is.”
― Eduardo Galeano

"Love is blind, but only if you're doing it correctly."

-Woody Allen

“Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
― Lemony Snicket

"Tuesday's for ducking, Wednesday's for school, Thursday's for drinking, Friday's for f**king."

-Tim Allen

“and if you can’t see anything beautiful about yourself
get a better mirror
look a little closer
stare a little longer
because there’s something inside you
that made you keep trying
despite everyone who told you to quit
you built a cast around your broken heart
and signed it yourself
you signed it
“they were wrong”
― Shane Koyczan