“Everything was eternally dreary, dismal, damned. Even the weather was insolent and bitchy.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

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“O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!”

― William Shakespeare, Othello

“Such is the magic of human languages, that by human accord often the same sounds mean different things.”

― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late?”

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

“I am deeply touched by the sincere concern shown by so many people in this part of the world for the suffering of the people of Tibet. That is a source of hope not only for us Tibetans, but for all oppressed people.”

― 14th Dalai Lama, Nobel Lecture

“And it is evident that it is not less repugnant that falsity or imperfection, in so far as it is imperfection, should proceed from God, than that truth or perfection should proceed from nothing.”

― René Descartes, Discourse on the Method

“His ear heard more than was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.”

― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

“Anxiously he explored every one of these vaguely seen shapes, as though among the phantoms of the dead, in the realms of darkness, he had been searching for a lost Eurydice.”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

“To sing you must first open your mouth. You must have a pair of lungs, and a little knowledge of music. It is not necessary to have an accordion, or a guitar. The essential thing is to want to sing. This then is a song. I am singing.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

“Wisdom is the understanding of celestial things to which the Spirit is brought by Love.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Séraphîta

“You take somebody old as hell, like old Spencer, and they can get a big bang out of buying a blanket.”

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

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