“Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.”

― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

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“The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. The more weapons you have, the less secure people will be.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“I've never met a man who led a rotten life and didn't have a weak will.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“Though men can cover crimes with bold stern looks, poor women's faces are their own faults' books.”

― William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece

“We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always like a sketch. No, sketch is not quite the word, because a sketch...”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest...”

― John Steinbeck, Cannery Row

“In truth, it is not want, but rather abundance, that creates avarice.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

“Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“disagreeable as it was to help get dinner, it was harder still to go begging for it”

― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Monday morning found Tom Sawyer miserable. Monday morning always found him so—because it began another week's slow suffering in school. He generally began that day with wishing he had had no intervening holiday, it made the going into captivity...”

― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

“In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling.”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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