“It was not, after all, so easy to die.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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“If you look for perfection, you will never be satisfied.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.”

― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“No nation which refuses to exercise forbearance and to respect the freedom and rights of others can long remain strong and retain the confidence and respect of other nations.”

― Franklin D. Roosevelt, Quarantine Speech

“We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

“This suggests cutting to speed the pace, and that’s what most of us end up having to do (kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings).”

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

“Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

“When I refuse to obey an unjust law, I do not contest the right which the majority has of commanding, but I simply appeal from the sovereignty of the people to the sovereignty of mankind.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“The wisest were just the poor and simple people. They knew the war to be a misfortune, whereas those who were better off, and should have been able to see more clearly what the consequences would be, were beside themselves with joy.”

― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

“The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.”

― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

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