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  • #1
    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    William W. Purkey

  • #2
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #3
    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    Mae West

  • #4
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #5
    “For every dream was worth the risk”
    Louisse Carreon (fallenbabybubu), A and D

  • #6
    Suzanne Collins
    “You love me. Real or not real?"
    I tell him, "Real.”
    Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

  • #7
    “Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.”
    R.J. Palacio, Wonder

  • #8
    Edward Abbey
    “May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.”
    Edward Abbey

  • #9
    Victor Hugo
    “To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.”
    Victor Hugo

  • #10
    Louis L'Amour
    “Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”
    Louis L'Amour, Matagorda/The First Fast Draw: Two Novels in One Volume

  • #11
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #12
    Frank McCourt
    “You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
    Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes

  • #13
    Julia Child
    “People who love to eat are always the best people.”
    Julia Child

  • #14
    G.K. Chesterton
    “Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #15
    J.D. Salinger
    “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #16
    Cassandra Clare
    “Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  • #17
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • #18
    Henry James
    “She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.”
    Henry James

  • #19
    Joseph Heller
    “Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”
    Joseph Heller, Catch-22

  • #20
    Virginia Woolf
    “Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
    Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts

  • #21
    Jon Krakauer
    “It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.”
    Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

  • #22
    Michael Chabon
    “There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal.”
    Michael Chabon, Wonder Boys
    tags: life

  • #23
    If you don't like someone's story, write your own.
    “If you don't like someone's story, write your own.”
    Chinua Achebe

  • #24
    I read; I travel; I become
    “I read; I travel; I become”
    Derek Walcott

  • #25
    Dorothea Mackellar
    “I love a sunburnt country,
    A land of sweeping plains,
    Of ragged mountain ranges,
    Of droughts and flooding rains.
    I love her far horizons,
    I love her jewel-sea,
    Her beauty and her terror –
    The wide brown land for me!”
    Dorothea Mackellar, The Poems of Dorothea Mackellar

  • #26
    Franz Kafka
    “I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #27
    Jean de la Fontaine
    “Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”
    Jean de La Fontaine

  • #28
    Thomas Wolfe
    “I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.”
    Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again

  • #29
    Graeme Simsion
    “Humans often fail to see what is close to them and obvious to others.”
    Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project

  • #30
    Graeme Simsion
    “But why, why, why can't people just say what they mean?”
    Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project



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