17 Quotes From The Best Banned Books Of All Time

“Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you.”

— Maya Angelou, amazon.com

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”

— Harper Lee, amazon.com

“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”

— George Orwell, amazon.com

“If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange—meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil.”

— Anthony Burgess, amazon.com

“Once a thing is set to happen, all you can do is hope it won't. Or will-depending. As long as you live, there’s always something waiting, and even if it’s bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can’t stop living.”

— Truman Capote, amazon.com

“I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer." "What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman?”

— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com

“I have nothing now but praise for my life. I'm not unhappy. I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more...What I dread is the isolation. ... There are so many beautiful things in the world which I will have to leave when I die, but I'm ready,…”

— Maurice Sendak, amazon.com

“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”

— Stephen Chbosky, amazon.com

“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”

— Aldous Huxley, amazon.com

“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”

— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com

“I had all the characteristics of a human being—flesh, blood, skin, hair—but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that my normal ability to feel compassion had been eradicated, the victim of a slow, purposeful erasure. I was simply imitating reality, a rough resemblance of a human b…”

— Bret Easton Ellis, amazon.com

“But whatever came, she had resolved never again to belong to another than herself.”

— Kate Chopin, amazon.com

“You're a bitter man," said Candide. That's because I've lived," said Martin.”

— Voltaire, amazon.com

“I wanted to tell him that I will never be sorry for loving him. That in a way I still do - that maybe I always will. I'll never regret one single thing we did together because what we had was very special. Maybe if we were ten years older it would have worked out differently. Maybe. I think it's jus…”

— Judy Blume, amazon.com

“Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are ri…”

— J. D. Salinger, amazon.com

“Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves.”

— James Joyce, amazon.com