“And it was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity.”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

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“When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.”

― Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson

“We control life, Winston, at all its levels. You are imagining that there is something called human nature which will be outraged by what we do and will turn against us. But we create human nature. Men are infinitely malleable.”

― George Orwell, 1984

“Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.”

― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“I think I would rather be a man than a god. We don’t need anyone to believe in us. We just keep going anyhow.”

― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“The value of all things contracted for, is measured by the Appetite of the Contractors: and therefore the just value, is that which they be contented to give.”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

“To a narrow-thinking person, it is hard to explain that to be 'educated' does not only mean being literate and having a B.A., and that an illiterate man can be a far more 'educated' voter than someone with an advanced degree.”

― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

“she felt . . . how life, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one, became curled and whole like a wave which bore one up and threw one down with it, there, with a dash on the beach.”

― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

“You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way. Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.”

― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.”

― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud Incredibly Close

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