“there is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

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“There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns. If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature to those of us who like to study people is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without hurting anyone and without humiliating himself too much.”

― Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

“The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe.”

― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

“The perfect woman, you see, was a working woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who used her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

“An enemy might at any time become a friend, but while an enemy was an enemy he should be trodden on and persecuted.”

― Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux

“He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for life. The habit of reticence—of talking without meaning—is never effaced.”

― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

“For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable what then?”

― George Orwell, 1984

“The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time.”

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

“A friend should bear his friend's infirmities, But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.”

― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“What have I always believed? That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would, at the end, more or less, turn out all right.”

― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

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