“And finally comes culture, which is entertainment, relaxation, transport out of the pain of living.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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“Don't you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn't just an hour—but a little piece of eternity dropped into your hands—and who knows what to do with it?”

― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

“When a man dreams his own dream, he is the sport of his dream; when Another gives it him, that Other is able to fulfil it.”

― George MacDonald, Lilith

“magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don't tell truth, I tell what ought to be truth. And if that is sinful, then let me be damned for it!”

― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

“there was no teaching a truly searching person, someone who truly wanted to find, could accept. But he who had found, he could approve of any teachings, every path, every goal”

― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”

― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul's paradox of love”

― A. W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God

“no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating...”

― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“The nineteenth-century liberal regarded an extension of freedom as the most effective way to promote welfare and equality; the twentieth-century liberal regards welfare and equality as either prerequisites of or alternatives to freedom.”

― Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom

“The idea that we shall die is more cruel than dying itself, but less cruel than the idea that someone else is dead”

― Marcel Proust, The Fugitive

“He in peace is wounded, not in war.”

― William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece

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