“I always want to know the things one shouldn't do . . . So as to choose”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

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“The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

“April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory and desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain.”

― T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land

“When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.”

― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

“Autobiographies are, after all, useful only as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.”

― Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

“But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry V

“Learning would spoil the best nigger in the world. Now . . . if you teach that nigger (speaking of myself) how to read, there would be no keeping him. It would forever unfit him to be a slave.”

― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

“Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.”

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

“She couldn’t be on his wavelength all the time. That’s all. When you could recognize that and deal with it, you were on your way to an adult relationship.”

― Stephen King, The Stand

“Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on...”

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

“It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to...”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

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