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“I never understood people who don't have bookshelves.”
― George Plimpton

“You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.”
― Olin Miller

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”
― Albert Einstein

“The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.”
― Doris Lessing

“One day I would have all the books in the world, shelves and shelves of them. I would live my life in a tower of books. I would read all day long and eat peaches. And if any young knights in armor dared to come calling on their white chargers and plead with me to let down my hair, I would pelt them with peach pits until they went home.”
― Jacqueline Kelly, The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate

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

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

“We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.”
― Noam Chomsky