“I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event”

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

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“All life is just a progression toward, and then a recession from, one phrase—'I love you.'”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flappers and Philosophers

“Women only know how to wound so. There is a poison on the tips of their little shafts, which stings a thousand times more than a man's blunter weapon.”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“he wondered at what age 'nice' women began to speak for themselves.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“I don't like work—no man does—but I like what is in the work—the chance to find yourself. Your own reality—for yourself, not for others—what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really...”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“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

“Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them; for the temperate man desires as he ought to desire, and what he ought to desire, as stated in Ethic.”

― Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

“How irksome is this music to my heart! When such strings jar, what hope of harmony?”

― William Shakespeare, Henry VI

“Then inch by inch out of the grass rose up the head and spread hood of Nag, the big black cobra, and he was five feet long from tongue to tail.”

― Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

“I was weeping again, drunk on the impossible past.”

― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“He's the victim of a critical age; he has ceased to believe in himself and he doesn't know what to believe in.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

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