- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -Aristotle
- A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. -George Bernard Shaw
- I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love. -Francoise Sagan
- The enemy is not the bad page. It is the empty page. -Timothy Hallinan
- Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I’ve ever known. -Chuck Palahniuk
- How vain it is to sit down and write when you have not stood up to live. -Henry David Thoreau
- Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable. -Oliver Wendell Holmes
- It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society. -Jiddu Krishnamurti
- You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think. -Dorothy Parker
- I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbable, beautiful and afraid of nothing, as though I had wings. - Mary Oliver
- Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive. - Josephine Hart
- Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. - Anais Nin
- I really don't know what 'I love you' means. I think it means 'Don't leave me here alone.' - Neil Gaiman
- Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is. - Oscar Wilde
- They sicken of the calm, those who have known the storm. - Dorothy Parker
- I promise I shall never give up and that I'll die yelling and laughing. - Jack Kerouac
- Promise me that you will not spend so much time treading water and trying to keep your head above the waves that you forget, truly forget, how much you have always loved to swim. - Tyler Knott Gregson
- Women love a sick child or a healthy animal. A man who embodies both itches them like an incubus. - Marilyn Hacker
- Faith is the art of holding on to things in spite of changing moods or circumstances. - C.S. Lewis
- Those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. - Friedrich Nietzsche
- It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else. - John Waters
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