“They say that rather than cursing the darkness, one should light a candle. They don't mention anything about cursing a lack of candles.”

― George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?

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“The division of the sexes is a biological given, not a moment in human history.”

― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“The heavens are calling you, and wheel around you, Displaying to you their eternal beauties, And still your eye is looking on the ground; Whence He, who all discerns, chastises you.”

― Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy

“Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how...”

― Christopher Hitchens, God is Not Great

“I felt what the duties of a creator towards his creature were, and that I ought to render him happy before I complained of his wickedness.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The American Scholar

“‘What do you fear, lady?’ he asked. ‘A cage,’ she said. ‘To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.’”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“Grace remits sin, and peace quiets the conscience. Sin and conscience torment us, but Christ has overcome these fiends now and forever.”

― Martin Luther, Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians

“I really felt ashamed to take advantage of the ingenuousness or grateful feeling of the child for the purpose of gratifying my curiosity. I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.”

― Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop

“Americans . . . are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

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