“Oh, I don't think I would care to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

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“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“He had brought no possessions with him; he would take none away. There were none to have—everything of value was in the school computer or his own head and hands.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not lost my ideals in the least; my faith in fundamentals is exactly what it always was. What I have lost is my old childlike faith...”

― G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“people often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it’s served up.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“Accumulate, accumulate! That is Moses and the prophets!”

― Karl Marx, Das Kapital

“The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I’d never seen before. Books and music were my best friends. I had a couple of good friends at school, but never met anyone I could really speak my...”

― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“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

“There are people in this world who cut such a grotesque figure that even death renders them ridiculous. And the more horrible the death the more ridiculous they seem.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

“I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.”

― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

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