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// Store some random quotations

function rand ( n )
{
	return ( Math.floor ( Math.random ( ) * n + 1 ) );
}

var random_quote = new Array ( );
var random_author = new Array ( );

// Enter Quotes here
random_quote[0]  = "It's kind of fun to do the impossible.";
random_author[0] = "Walt Disney";
random_quote[1]  = "If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster..";
random_author[1] = "Isaac Asimov";
random_quote[2]  = " There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good. ";
random_author[2] = "F. Scott Fitzgerald";
random_quote[3]  = " But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling, like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.";
random_author[3] = "Lord Byron";
random_quote[4]  = " There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the book is not there and worth being written -- it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself.";
random_author[4] = "Mark Twain";
random_quote[5]  = " Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.";
random_author[5] = "Oscar Wilde";
random_quote[6]  = " I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.";
random_author[6] = "Pearl S. Buck";
random_quote[7]  = " Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won.";
random_author[7] = "Ralph Waldo Emerson";
random_quote[8]  = " Poetry: the best words in the best order.";
random_author[8] = "Samuel Taylor Coleridge";
random_quote[9]  = "I don’t want realism. I want magic!";
random_author[9] = "Tennessee Williams";
random_quote[10]  = " Fiction is the truth inside the lie.";
random_author[10] = "Stephen King <i> </i>";
random_quote[11]  = " The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.";
random_author[11] = "Tom Clancy <i> </i>";
random_quote[12]  = "Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand -- a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods -- or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values.";
random_author[12] = "Willa Cather <i> </i>";
random_quote[13]  = " Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart ";
random_author[13] = "William Wordsworth <i> </i>";
random_quote[14]  = " History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.";
random_author[14] = "Winston Churchill <i> </i>";
random_quote[15]  = " If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud. ";
random_author[15] = "Emile Zola";
random_quote[16]  = " Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed.";
random_author[16] = "Ray Bradbury";
random_quote[17]= " The Nobel Prize is the best thing that can happen to a writer in terms of how it affects your contracts, the publishers, and the seriousness with which your work is taken. On the other hand, it does interfere with your private life, or it can if you let it, and it has zero effect on the writing.It doesn't help you write better and if you let it, it will intimidate you about future projects.";
random_author[17]= " TONI MORRISON <i> Time interview, Jan. 21, 1998</i>";
random_quote[18]= "Hardly anybody ever writes anything nice about introverts. Extroverts rule. This is rather odd when you realize that about nineteen writers out of twenty are introverts. We are been taught to be ashamed of not being 'outgoing'. But a writer's job is ongoing.";
random_author[18]= "Ursula K. LeGuin";
random_quote[19]= "Through joy and through sorrow, I wrote. Through hunger and through thirst, I wrote. Through good report and through ill report, I wrote. Through sunshine and through moonshine, I wrote. What I wrote it is unnecessary to say.";
random_author[19]= "Edgar Allan Poe";
random_quote[20]= " The pen is the tongue of the mind.";
random_author[20]= " Miguel de Cervantes ";
random_quote[21]= " All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.";
random_author[21]= "William Shakespeare";
random_quote[22]= " And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.";
random_author[22]= "William Shakespeare";
random_quote[23]= " There are only a few enlightened people with a lucid mind and style and with good taste within a century.";
random_author[23]= "Albert Einstein, 1954";
random_quote[24]= " We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we're looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven't found it. ";
random_author[24]= "Plato, 380 B.C.";
random_quote[25]= "'That is the story. Do you think there is any way of making them believe it?'<br>' Not in the first generation', he said, 'but you might succeed with the second and later generations.'";
random_author[25] =" Plato, 380 B.C.";
random_quote[26] = "Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to the public.";
random_author[26]= "Winston Churchill (1874-1965) former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, noted statesman, orator and strategist.";
random_quote[27]  = "[T]he young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat.";
random_author[27] = "Willikam Faulkner, 'Nobel Prize Speech'";
random_quote[28]  = "No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.";
random_author[28] = "Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet.";
random_quote[29]  = "The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life --and one is as good as the other.";
random_author[29] = "Ernest Hemingway (1898-1961) American Writer.";
random_quote[30]  = "There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.";
random_author[30] = "Oscar Wilde, 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'";
random_quote[31]  = "But what is the difference between literature and journalism? ...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.";
random_author[31] = "Oscar Wilde, 'The Critic as Artist'";
random_quote[32]  = " You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.  You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.";
random_author[32] = "Naguib Mahfouz, 1988 Nobel Prize Winner";
random_quote[33]  = "You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit othere is a fool. My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being,the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to. For my system, which you disapprove of is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness -it means more to me than my life itself.";
random_author[33] = "Marquis de Sade, (1740-1814) French poet, critic, delegate to the National Convention";
random_quote[34]  = "I write of the great eternal truths that bind all men together the whole world over. We eat, we shit, we fuck, we kill, and we die.";
random_author[34] = "Marquis de Sade, (1740-1814) French poet, critic, delegate to the National Convention";
random_quote[35]  = "Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and effective delivery with the tongue--where their purpose is to merely entertain, not instruct; they have to be limbered up, broken up, colloquialized and turned into common forms of premeditated talk--otherwise they will bore the house and not entertain it.";
random_author[35] = "Mark Twain";
random_quote[36]  = "For first you write a sentence, And then you chop it small; Then mix the bits and sort them out Just as they chance to fall: The order of the phrases makes no difference at all.";
random_author[36] = "Lewis Carrol, 'Poeta fit non nascitur.'";
random_quote[37]  = "I never delighted much in comtemplating commas and colons, or in spelling or measuring symbols; but now... if I attempt to look at these little objects, I find my imagination, in spite of all my exertions, roaming in the Milky Way, among the nebulae, those mighty orbs, and stupendous orbits of suns, planets, satellites, and comets which compose incomprehensible universe; and if I don't sink into nothing in my own estimation, I feel an irrestistible impulse to fall on my knees, in adoration of the power that moves, wisdom that directs, and the benevolence that santifies the whole.";
random_author[37] = "John Adams (1735-1826) 2nd President of the United States";
random_quote[38]  = "Not all who wander are lost.";
random_author[38] = "JRR Tolkien (1892-1973) Author of Lord of the Rings";
random_quote[39]  = "What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while...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.";
random_author[39] = "J. D. Salinger<i> </i>";
random_quote[40]  = "If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you.";
random_author[40] = "Henry Rollins, songwriter-artist";
random_quote[41]  = "I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it. We must search for fragments, splinters, toenails, anything that has ore in it, anything that is capable of resuscitating the body and the soul.";
random_author[41] = "Henry Miller, 'The Tropic of Cancer'";
random_quote[42]  = "The first draft of anything is shit.";
random_author[42] = "Ernest Hemingway (1898-1961) American Writer.";
random_quote[43]  = "To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.";
random_author[43] = "Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French poet, dramatist and novelist.";
random_quote[44]= "This book is not to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.";
random_author[44]= "Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967 American Poet and Writer";
random_quote[45]= "Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.";
random_author[45]= "Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist and philosopher.";
random_quote[46]= "The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.";
random_author[46]= "Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish poet and dramatist.";
random_quote[47]= "The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.";
random_author[47]= "Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish poet and dramatist.";
random_quote[48]= "A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.";
random_author[48]= "Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) British novelist and essayist.";
random_quote[49]= "Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?";
random_author[49]= "Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) British novelist and essayist.";
random_quote[50]= "The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.";
random_author[50]= "Walt Whitman (1819-1892) American poet.";
random_quote[51]= "The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.";
random_author[51]= "Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832) German poet, novelist and dramatist.";
random_quote[52]= "The most foolish kind of a book is a kind of leaky boat on the sea of wisdom; some of the wisdom will get in anyhow.";
random_author[52] ="Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) American author and poet.";
random_quote[53] = "The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.";
random_author[53]= "-- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish poet and dramatist.";
random_quote[54] = "";
random_author[54]= "";


// enter total number of quotes here
var count = 54;


// find a different random numbers in range
var randnr = rand(count)-1;

// assign quote and author
var randquote = random_quote[randnr];
var randauthor = random_author[randnr];

// write output
document.write(randquote + "<br><b>-- " + randauthor + "</b>");


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