
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." - F. Scott Fitzgerald The final line of The Great Gatsby, the Fi...
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"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." - F. Scott Fitzgerald The final line of The Great Gatsby, the Fi...
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View full details"She was becoming herself, casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment." - Kate Chopin This poignant quotation is from Chopi...
View full details"Above all, don't lie to yourself." - Fyodor Dostoevsky From The Brothers Karamazov. This passage is so awesome, we included the entire excerpt in...
View full details"I would rather have nothing but tea. " - Jane Austen Pray, coffee drinkers, do not trifle with a connoisseur of the finer beverage, lest you fin...
View full details"I have measured out my life with coffee spoons " - T. S. Eliot Move over, tea, your petticoat needs fluffing. Enter the bold and bitter beverage...
View full details"It is not down in any map; true places never are." - Herman Melville From Chapter 12 of his masterpiece, Moby Dick, in which we learn the origin ...
View full details"They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered." - F. Scott Fitzgerald The roaring twenties, when booze was illegal and...
View full details"Beauty will save the world." - Fyodor Dostoevsky Out of context, it would be easy to dismiss this quotation as hopelessly naive. But for Dostoevs...
View full details"What am I doing here in this endless winter?" - Franz Kafka From his short, surrealist story, A Country Doctor. Although he died over a century a...
View full details"When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter, do they?" - Virginia Woolf Sometimes we can all use a little perspecti...
View full details"I am excessively diverted." - Jane Austen Are't we all, though? With any luck, it's the fault of a delicious read. • 11x14 inch art print with...
View full details"We live in the flicker." - Joseph Conrad A lightning bolt splits the night, leaving a lasting impression before it fades into darkness. • 11x1...
View full details"Desiring truth, awaiting it, laboriously distilling a few words, forever desiring - truth." - Virginia Woolf, Monday or Tuesday From her first sh...
View full details"I wonder what the machines will think." - Philip K. Dick Sometimes, surprisingly reasonable advice can be gleaned from a paranoid dystopian metac...
View full details"Some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm." - Willa Cather From her novel The Song of the Lark. In our illustration, an ocean scene i...
View full details"Dance as wildly, as noisily, as furiously as you can." - Mark Twain From his travelogue The Innocents Abroad. Mark Twain spent much of his time in...
View full details"All the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow." - Leo Tolstoy No one one does heavy books with heavy themes quite like Tolstoy. But if yo...
View full details"Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude." - Marcel Proust Some observations are so astute that once you rea...
View full details"The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again." - Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby I’ve thought about this quotation often over t...
View full details"Working in silence, the machine became invisible." - Franz Kafka A gentleman strides forth on a treadmill of ones and zeros, oblivious to the inv...
View full details"The sea is big and old." - Ernest Hemingway Too simple for your taste? Perhaps he should have gone with "the sea is boundless and ancient," or "t...
View full details"I would always rather be happy than dignified." - Charlotte Brontë A cyclist makes her own path. From her novel Jane Eyre. • 11x14 inch art pr...
View full details"For we have thought the longer thoughts, and gone the shorter way." - Ernest Hemingway From his poem Chapter Heading. In his earlier work, Heming...
View full details"Their lips brushed like wild flowers in the wind." - F. Scott Fitzgerald From his novel This Side of Paradise. This particular quote serves as a ...
View full details"Strive to know yourself, for it is the most difficult lesson in the world." - Cervantes From the extraordinary Don Quixote. The maxim "know thys...
View full details"He tried not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking." - Leo Tolstoy This is one of the ...
View full details"Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds." - George Eliot From her novel Adam Bede. • 11x14 inch art print with white border •...
View full details"To love or have loved, that is enough." - Victor Hugo The entire quote from Les Miserables is, "To love or have loved, that is enough. Demand not...
View full details"Her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood." - James Joyce From the gorgeous short story "Araby" in his collection "Dubliners." It's the...
View full details" It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." - Jane Austen The opening...
View full details"Invention does not consist in creating out of a void, but out of chaos." - Mary Shelley From the introduction to her novel Frankenstein. We respo...
View full details"The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing." - Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence. "You see, Monsieur, it's worth everything, isn't it, ...
View full details"The truth is simple, so we complicate the journey." - George Sand From her collected letters. • 11x14 inch art print with white border • Premi...
View full details"She is too fond of books and it has turned her brain." - Louisa May Alcott From her novel Work: A Story of Experience. • 11x14 inch art print ...
View full details"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." - Emily Bronte, "Wuthering Heights An egg in its nest, composed of two halves that f...
View full details"All that on a very small planet that would have to last forever." - Kurt Vonnegut What a bunch of buffoons we must look like to the Tralfamadoria...
View full details"The walls of my castle are broken, the shadows are many." - Bram Stoker, Dracula When Bram Stoker published gothic horror novel Dracula in 1897, ...
View full details"I shall use my time." - Jack London The treacherous path inscribed on this map dares you to venture north, past the coast lines and jagged island...
View full details"There is no denying the wild horse in us." - Virginia Woolf She’s all poise and pearls, but look closer: Behind the passive exterior, a passion...
View full details"And the Spring would come again! Oh, it would come again!" - Willa Cather From her novel O Pioneers! The illustration depicts several themes from...
View full details"Yet mad I am not, and very surely do I not dream." - Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat Poe was a master of the unreliable narrator, a madman who wor...
View full details"We are all in paradise but refuse to see it." - Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov Dostoevsky in 1879: Survives Russian winters and four ...
View full details"The libraries of the world are thrown open to me." - Mary Shelley From the novel The Last Man by Mary Shelley. • 11x14 inch art print with whi...
View full details"Imagination is a good servant and a bad master." - Agatha Christie Spoken by that brilliant Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot. A series of interl...
View full details"Silent but for one Voice that speaks its mighty travail." - Thomas Wolfe A cityscape casts a shadow of trees, marrying the aspirations of nature ...
View full details"Have you ever heard the earth breathe?" - Kate Chopin With a little assistance from the wind, the branches and a bird work together to reveal a l...
View full details"When she raises her eyelids, it's as if she were taking off all her clothes." - Colette The curve of a dress meets the promise of an arresting st...
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