“I never know what I mean in my telegrams—especially those I send from America. Clearness is too expensive.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

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“She can't have understood you: you are so utterly different from ordinary men. That's what I liked about you when I first saw you; I felt at once that you weren't like everybody else.”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

“His name is Marcus: he is four and a half and possesses that deep gravity and seriousness that only small children and mountain gorillas have ever been able to master.”

― Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys

“But some things are not forgivable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgivable. It is the one unforgivable thing in my opinion and it is the one thing of which I have never, never been guilty.”

― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

“A lord may love the men that he commands, he could hear his lord father saying, but he cannot be a friend to them. One day he may need to sit in judgment on them, or send them forth to die.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“It's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life.”

― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud Incredibly Close

“Our cause is never more in danger, than when a human, no longer desiring, but intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.”

― C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done.”

― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“The value of money is in proportion to the quantity of the necessaries of life which it will purchase.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

“it is so easy to convert others. It is so difficult to convert oneself.”

― Oscar Wilde, Intentions

“It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.”

― Mark Twain, Following the Equator

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