“April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory and desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain.”

― T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land

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“You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.”

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

“The chief beauty of this book lies not so much in its literary style, or in the extent and usefulness of the information it conveys, as in its simple truthfulness.”

― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

“You wanted to look at life for yourself—but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish. You were ground in the very mill of the conventional!”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

“Mama, the more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!”

― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“the Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.”

― Saint Augustine, Confessions

“it is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn't have you by the throat.”

― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

“Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance; yonder palace was raised by single stones, yet you see its height and spaciousness.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

“The greatest hazard of all, losing the self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss—an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. —is sure to be noticed.”

― Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death

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