“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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“I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy.”

― J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

“She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“To such an extent does passion manifest itself in us as a temporary and distinct character, which not only takes the place of our normal character but actually obliterates the signs by which that character has hitherto been discernible.”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

“I've chosen the work I want to do. If I find no joy in it, then I'm only condemning myself to sixty years of torture. And I can find the joy only if I do my work in the best way possible to me. But the best is a matter of standards—and I set my...”

― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don’t plan for it!”

― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

“A home without a cat—and a well-fed, well-petted, and properly revered cat—may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?”

― Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson

“The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her, if she is pretty, and to some one else, if she is plain.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“No one understands so well as a woman, how to say things that are, at once, both sweet and deep.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“In Books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.”

― Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes

“Every tax ought to be so contrived, as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the state.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

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