“Life is there to be lived rather than to be written about.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

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“So foul and fair a day I have not seen.”

― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“I have always kept an open mind, which is necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of intelligent search for truth.”

― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.”

― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

“Love is fragile . . . but perhaps the pieces are saved, the things that hovered on lips, that might have been said. The new love words, the tendernesses learned, are treasured up for the next lover.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tales of the Jazz Age

“One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; besides, the extreme thing is generally the true thing.”

― Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays

“How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another!”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

“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

“Writing fiction, especially a long work of fiction, can be a difficult, lonely job; it’s like crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a bathtub. There’s plenty of opportunity for self-doubt.”

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

“There is a way out of a forest, there is none out of a cloister; a man is free in the forest but he is a slave in the cloister. It may well be that greater strength of character is needed for standing up to solitude than to poverty, for if...”

― Denis Diderot, The Nun

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