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  • #1
    William Faulkner
    “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
    William Faulkner

  • #2
    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

  • #3
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    Mark Twain

  • #4
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #5
    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    William Shakespeare, As You Like It

  • #6
    Albert Einstein
    “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #7
    Socrates
    “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
    Socrates

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    John Green
    “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #11
    George Eliot
    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    George Eliot

  • #12
    “Is your learning curve a horizontal line?”
    Nora Sakavic, The King's Men

  • #13
    Christina Lauren
    “A God worthy of your eternal love wouldn’t judge you for who you love while you’re here.”
    Christina Lauren, Autoboyography

  • #14
    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    Mark Twain

  • #15
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”
    Rumi

  • #16
    John Steinbeck
    “I guess there are never enough books.”
    John Steinbeck, A John Steinbeck Encyclopedia

  • #17
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

  • #18
    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

  • #19
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #20
    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

  • #21
    Langston Hughes
    “Hold fast to dreams,
    For if dreams die
    Life is a broken-winged bird,
    That cannot fly.”
    Langston Hughes

  • #22
    Emily Dickinson
    “Hope is the thing with feathers
    That perches in the soul
    And sings the tune without the words
    And never stops at all.”
    Emily Dickinson

  • #23
    William Goldman
    “My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!”
    William Goldman, The Princess Bride

  • #24
    Erin Morgenstern
    “I wanted you to have a place where you felt safe enough to cry if I could not be with you.”
    Erin Morgenstern

  • #25
    Anne Frank
    “I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
    Anne Frank

  • #26
    Neil Gaiman
    “I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.”
    Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

  • #27
    W.B. Yeats
    “Never give all the heart, for love
    Will hardly seem worth thinking of
    To passionate women if it seem
    Certain, and they never dream
    That it fades out from kiss to kiss;
    For everything that’s lovely is
    But a brief, dreamy, kind delight.
    O never give the heart outright,

    from “Never give all the heart”
    W.B. Yeats

  • #28
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #29
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #30
    Viv Albertine
    “I love that word. Forever. I love that forever doesn't exist, but we have a word for it anyway, and use it all the time. It's beautiful and doomed.”
    Viv Albertine, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys

  • #31
    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
    Ernest Hemingway



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