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"Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth."

— Albert Camus

"A library is a hospital for the mind."

— Alvin Toffler

"All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know."

— Ernest Hemingway

"Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy."

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

"A book should serve as an axe for the frozen sea within us."

— Franz Kafka

"Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist, fairy tales tell children the dragons can be defeated."

— G. K. Chesterton

"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía remembered that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."

— George Orwell

"In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves; self-discipline with all of them came first."

— Harry Truman

"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."

— J. K. Rowling

"All great literature is one of two stories: a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town."

— John Gardner

"As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly and then all at once."

— John Green

"Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting."

— John Green

"The wonderful thing about a book is that once you close it, it's yours forever."

— John W. Gardner

"You are the hero of your own story."

— Joseph Campbell

"And she was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes."

— Kurt Vonnegut

"The hero of my tale—whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is and will forever be beautiful—is truth."

— Leo Tolstoy

"The only possible paradises are those we have lost."

— Marcel Proust

"Even in the future, the story begins with once upon a time."

— Marissa Meyer

"The good ended happily and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means."

— Oscar Wilde

"Books are uniquely portable magic."

— Stephen King

"The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them."

— Stephen King

"A quote a day, keeps all troubles away."

"Write a wise saying and your name will live forever."

"All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances. And one man in his time plays many parts."

— William Shakespeare

"A good book has no ending."

— R. D. Cumming

"All the girls in the world were divided into two classes: one class included all the girls in the world except her and they had all the usual human feelings and were very ordinary girls; while the other class -herself alone- had no weaknesses and was superior to all humanity."

— Leo Tolstoy

"Broadly speaking, the short words are the best and the old words best of all."

— Winston Churchill

"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for."

— Socrates

"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."

— Mark Twain

"I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again."

— Leo Tolstoy

"In every movie the girl always marry the rich guy but ends up with a poor one with character."

"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations."

— Winston Churchill

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

— Charles Dickens

"Journeys end in lovers meeting."

— William Shakespeare

"Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one's own self."

— Franz Kafka

"One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are more interesting than those one thinks up oneself."

— Marcel Proust

"Proust was the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth."

— Graham Greene

"Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering."

— Nicole Krauss

"One of the strangest things in the world is that you can read a page or many pages of a book while thinking about something completely unrelated."

— Virginia Woolf

"One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time."

— Carl Sagan

"Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit."

— Oscar Wilde

"Reading history makes people wise, reading poetry makes people smart, mathematics makes people meticulous, natural philosophy makes people sophisticated, ethics makes people dignified and logical embellishment makes people eloquent."

— Francis Bacon

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again."

— C. S. Lewis

"Stories govern more than genetics."

— Jordan Peterson

"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves."

— William Shakespeare

"The difference between a fairy tale and a war is that one starts 'Once upon a time."

"The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you the knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination."

— Elizabeth Hardwick

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."

— Dr. Seuss

"The next best thing to being clever is being able to quote some one who is."

"The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of eternal youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is; and this we can contrive with an Elstir, with a Vinteuil; with men like these we do really fly from star to star."

— Marcel Proust

"To compare quotation books is to stroll through a glorious jungle of incestuous mutual plagiarism."

— James Gleick

"Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like foie gras."

— Margaret Atwood

"Well-read people are less likely to be evil."

— Lemony Snicket

"What day is it? 'It's today.' squeaked Piglet. 'My favorite day,' said Pooh."

— A. A. Milne

"Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity."

— Hermann Hesse