My kind of quotes/excerpts

• Shelves overstuffed with books, an overwhelming aroma of paper and ink and the joy of making a new discovery as you scan through the clutter while a gnome like owner hops from shelf to shelf and finally finds you the one rare book you have searched for through eternity.

Taken from a news paper article unfortunately I forgot to note down the author's name

• I often wondered which is mine: tolerance or a rubber spine?

Ogden Nash

• If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you

          If you can trust yourself when all people ('men' in original version) doubt you
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         If you can meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two impostors just the same

Rudyard Kipling

• God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh

Unfortunately don't know who had quoted this

• A wo(man) who finds no satisfaction in himself seeks for it in vain elsewhere.

Francois La Rochefoucauld

• We make our own fortunes and call them fate.

Benjamin Disraeli

• I will sleep when I am dead.

Title of the oral biography of Warren Zevon

• Well behaved women seldom make history

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

• To live a creative life, we must our fear of being wrong.
  
  
  Joseph Chilton Pearce
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