“Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.”

― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

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“in order to discover that we are in love, even perhaps in order to fall in love, the day of separation needs to arrive.”

― Marcel Proust, The Fugitive

“They say that rather than cursing the darkness, one should light a candle. They don't mention anything about cursing a lack of candles.”

― George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?

“I don't like trick horses. It takes all the—dignity out of a horse to make him do tricks. Why, a trick horse is kind of like an actor—no dignity, no character of his own.”

― John Steinbeck, The Red Pony

“Gradually, he fell into that deep tranquil sleep which ease from recent suffering alone imparts; that calm and peaceful rest which it is pain to wake from. Who, if this were death, would be roused again to all the struggles and turmoils of life;...”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.”

― George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London

“The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Well, thus we play the fools with the time, and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry IV

“His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“Gods don’t like people not doing much work. People who aren’t busy all the time might start to think.”

― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

“I saw now that a man alone is but a being that may become a man—that he is but a need, and therefore a possibility.”

― George MacDonald, Lilith

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