“any pleasure that does no harm to other people is to be valued.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

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“Every one needs to talk to some one . . . Before we had religion and other nonsense. Now for every one there should be some one to whom one can speak frankly, for all the valor that one could have one becomes very alone.”

― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

“The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.”

― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

“The truth is that no mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

“If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”

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

“When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages a sick sense of failure falls on me and I know I can never do it. This happens every time. Then gradually I write one page and then another. One day’s work is all I can permit...”

― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley

“an unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“If her life were a simple rosary of hours, her life simple and strange as a bird's life, gay in the morning, restless all day, tired at sundown? Her heart simple and wilful as a bird's heart?”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“But the images, forewarned, immediately leaped up and filled my closed eyes with existences: existence is a fullness which man can never abandon.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

“You don't want to ask after the health of anyone, if you're a funeral director. They think maybe you're scouting for business”

― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“Well, I like a lot of talk in a book, and I don't like to have nobody tell me what the guy that's talking looks like. I want to figure out what he looks like from the way he talks.”

― John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday

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