“You can kill the body, Mr. Hands, but not the spirit;”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

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“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“No, I'm romantic—a sentimental person thinks things will last—a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“Old George Orwell got it backward. Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother's busy holding your attention every moment you're awake.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

“The red wine first must rise in their fair cheeks, my lord; then we shall have 'em talk us to silence.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry VIII

“I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry IV

“You can't have a lasting civilization without plenty of pleasant vices.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“Most of us spend a good part of our lives in clearing our minds of the notions that sprang up unchecked during our nonage. This is called 'getting our experience.'”

― Honoré de Balzac, Lost Illusions

“Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”

― Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens

“I am now sending back to Belle Plain all my wagons for a fresh supply of provisions and ammunition, and purpose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.”

― Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

“Women ought to be free—as free as we are”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

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