“There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

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“a fundamental quality in the female tradition . . . The proper name for the thing is modesty; but as we live in an age of prejudice and must not call things by their right names, we will yield to a more modern nomenclature and call it dignity.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

“Adventures are all very well in their place . . . but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.”

― Neil Gaiman, Stardust

“We thought we were the only thinking beings in the universe, until we met you, but never did we dream that thought could arise from the lonely animals who cannot dream each other’s dreams.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing as war.”

― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“stay insane, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention.”

― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over, so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.”

― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Who has not remarked the readiness with which the closest of friends and honestest of men suspect and accuse each other of cheating when they fall out on money matters? Everybody does it. Everybody is right, I suppose, and the world is a rogue.”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Sunlight is the life-blood of Nature. Mother Earth looks at us with such dull, soulless eyes, when the sunlight has died away from out of her.”

― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

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