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  • #1
    John Christopher
    “You would always beat me; not so much because you are a better fighter as because you will not accept defeat.”
    John Christopher, The Sword of the Spirits

  • #2
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.”
    Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

  • #3
    William Goldman
    “As you wish...”
    William Goldman, The Princess Bride

  • #4
    George R.R. Martin
    “Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
    George R. R. Martin

  • #5
    Andrew Solomon
    “I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.”
    Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

  • #6
    Guy Gavriel Kay
    “There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.”
    Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana

  • #7
    J.G. Ballard
    “Perhaps the future belongs to magic, and it's we women who control magic.”
    J. G. Ballard, Rushing to Paradise

  • #8
    James  Burke
    “When you read a book, you hold another's mind in your hands.”
    James Burke

  • #9
    Sadegh Hedayat
    “خوبی و بدی آدم دخلی به مذهب و عقیده ندارد.

    شبهای ورامین”
    صادق هدایت

  • #10
    Patricia Highsmith
    “My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”
    Patricia Highsmith

  • #11
    John Green
    “Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #12
    Jack Kerouac
    “We agreed to love each other madly.”
    Jack Kerouac, On the Road

  • #13
    Jack Kerouac
    “because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars...”
    Jack Kerouac, On the Road

  • #14
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #15
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #16
    Elizabeth Moon
    “Sometimes I wonder how normal normal people are, and I wonder that most in the grocery store.”
    Elizabeth Moon, The Speed of Dark

  • #17
    John Updike
    “It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.”
    John Updike, My Father's Tears and Other Stories

  • #18
    H.L. Mencken
    “I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.”
    H.L. Mencken

  • #19
    Maud Hart Lovelace
    “She thought of the library, so shining white and new; the rows and rows of unread books; the bliss of unhurried sojourns there and of going out to a restaurant, alone, to eat.”
    Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown

  • #20
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • #21
    Danielle Steel
    “Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through. It's like some people just come through our lives to bring us something: a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn. And that's why they're here. You'll have that gift forever.”
    Danielle Steel, The Gift

  • #22
    Carol Shields
    “Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.”
    Carol Shields

  • #23
    Victor Hugo
    “آدم ها در دو حالت همدیگر را ترک می کنند ،
    اول اینکه احساس کنند کسی دوستشون نداره ،
    دوم اینکه احساس کنند یکی خیلی دوستشون داره”
    ویکتور هوگو

  • #24
    Emily Brontë
    “Terror made me cruel . . .”
    Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

  • #25
    Oriana Fallaci
    “عادت بدترین بیماریه. کاری می کنه که آدم به هر بدبختی و هر دردی سر خم کنه و بتونه کنار آدمای نفرت انگیز دووم بیاره”
    Oriana Fallaci, A Man

  • #26
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #27
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”
    Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

  • #28
    Bear Grylls
    “You can't become a decent horseman until you fall off and get up again, a good number of times.
    There's life in a nutshell.”
    Bear Grylls, Mud, Sweat and Tears

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  • #30
    Ahmet Kaya
    “ما کُردها با هزاران نوع شکنجه دست و پنجه نرم کرده ایم. زندان هایتان هرچقدر کوچک تر، اراده ی ما بزرگ تر خواهد بود”
    Ahmet Kaya



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