“my life has been determinedly unexciting; my life is a reading list.”

― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

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“magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don't tell truth, I tell what ought to be truth. And if that is sinful, then let me be damned for it!”

― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

“Freedom will destroy itself if it is not exercised within some sort of moral framework, some body of shared beliefs, some spiritual heritage transmitted through the Church, the family and the school.”

― Margaret Thatcher, The Path to Power

“I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“I don't believe there's an atom of meaning in it.”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

“We have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts; whereof I take this, that you call love, to be a sect or scion.”

― William Shakespeare, Othello

“there is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

“All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.”

― Oscar Wilde, Intentions

“The very qualities I love you for are the ones that will always make you a failure.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.”

― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Force, and Fraud, are in warre the two Cardinall vertues.”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

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