Popular Quotes 10: J.D. Salinger, Anais Nin, Alexandre Dumas-fils
“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
“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
“The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.”
Alexandre Dumas-fils
“If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.”
Marilyn Monroe
“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”
Robert Fulghum, True Love
“You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz
“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.”
Oscar Wilde
“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you…I could walk through my garden forever.”
Alfred Tennyson
“Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“Not all those who wander are lost.”
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
