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"Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me"
Emily Dickinson
"I am not one of those who believe that taking drugs produces a permanent bettering of the human mind. Every great writer, every genuine artist, has had the experience of being intoxicated by language."
Virginia Woolf
"The mind of a writer can be a truly terrifying thing."
Robert De Niro
"I think every girl is looking for her Mr. Darcy"
Keira Knightley
"When you read a novel, your own imagery is formed"
Daniel Craig
"The art of reading is to skip judiciously"
Alexander Hamilton
"A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction"
Virginia Woolf
"Tilda Swinton is primarily known as an actress and not an author, and she does not have any famous quotes as an author."
Tilda Swinton
"In my mind, the plays I was reading in college, they all had gay characters or trans characters in them"
Michael Keaton
"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read"
James Baldwin
"Myth is supposed to bring us together, but fantasy alienates us."
Dustin Hoffman
"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all."
Abraham Lincoln
"I can resist everything except temptation."
Oscar Wilde
"Of all things, I liked books best."
Nikola Tesla
"It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful."
Vincent Van Gogh
"A man should always have his diary on him. That way, he’s guaranteed to have something incredible to read."
Matthew McConaughey
"I am a part of everything that I have read."
Theodore Roosevelt
"Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me."
Sigmund Freud
"Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it."
Rumi
"You cannot open a book without learning something."
Confucius