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

― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

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“Oh, I assure you I've lots of time, my time is entirely my own!”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

“The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the U.S. reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't. Of course, the atom bomb is a weapon of mass slaughter, but the outcome of a war is decided by the people, not by one or two...”

― Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung

“The simplicity of noun-verb construction is useful—at the very least it can provide a safety net for your writing.”

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

“Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?”

― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

“Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish . . . know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of...”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“it's better to look at the sky than live there.”

― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's

“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

“Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.”

― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

“the best way to manage some kinds of pain fill thoughts, is to dare them to do their worst; to let them lie and gnaw at your heart till they are tired; and you find you still have a residue of life they cannot kill.”

― George MacDonald, Phantastes

“If I die prematurely, at any rate I shall be saved from being bored by my own success.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

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