“The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

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“Not that length and weight alone indicate excellence; many epic tales are pretty much epic crap—just ask my critics, who will moan about entire Canadian forests massacred in order to print my drivel.”

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

“Killing is not nearly as easy as the innocent believe.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“There is no nature which is inferior to art, for the arts imitate the nature of things.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“All of us need to be reminded that the Federal Government did not create the States; the States created the Federal Government.”

― Ronald Reagan, Inaugural Address

“My ambition is handicapped by laziness.”

― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

“To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, —that is genius.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

“How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it.”

― Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments

“It is required of every man . . . that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellowmen, and travel far and wide; and if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death.”

― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“to care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it's good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

“When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

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