“Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand…”

― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

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“It is useful to know something of the manners of different nations, that we may be enabled to form a more correct judgment regarding our own, and be prevented from thinking that everything contrary to our customs is ridiculous and irrational, a...”

― René Descartes, Discourse on the Method

“Men will not look at things as they really are, but as they wish them to be—and are ruined.”

― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“Where there are no distinctions there can be no superiority, perfect equality affords no temptation.”

― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

“all knowledge is spendable currency, depending on the market.”

― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time.”

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

“If you're trying to improve your mind, stop it! There's no improving the mind. Look at your heart and gizzard — the brain is in the heart.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn

“The people who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.”

― Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

“Everything, even herself, was now unbearable to her. She wished that, taking wing like a bird, she could fly somewhere, far away to regions of purity, and there grow young again.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“You noticed that her eyes were what I might call hard. She has never been sheltered. She has had to take care of herself, and a young girl can't take care of herself and keep her eyes soft and gentle like—like yours, for example.”

― Jack London, Martin Eden

“Each person who ever was or is or will be has a song. It isn’t a song that anybody else wrote. It has its own melody, it has its own words. Very few people get to sing their own song. Most of us fear that we cannot do it justice with our...”

― Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys

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