“Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do.”

― G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

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“The truth seems to be, however, that, when he casts his leaves forth upon the wind, the author addresses, not the many who will fling aside his volume, or never take it up, but the few who will understand him, better than most of his schoolmates...”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“In any case you mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“God's will! My liege, would you and I alone, without more help, could fight this royal battle!”

― William Shakespeare, Henry V

“When all else fails, give up and go to the library.”

― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“No man means evil but the devil, and we shall know him by his horns.”

― William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor

“He has been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers.”

― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

“You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say.”

― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“I felt my lungs inflate with the inrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, 'This is what it is to be happy.'”

― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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