“Top-heavy was the ship as a dinnerless student with all Aristotle in his head.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

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“Yet such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“It is not every one . . . who has your passion for dead leaves.”

― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“Wealth meant victory and victory was the only reality. What woman chooses to live with a dishwasher?”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

“It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

“For they are the moments when something new has entered us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy embarrassment, everything in us withdraws, a silence arises, and the new experience, which no one knows, stands in the midst of it all...”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.”

― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

“How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 8:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else...”

― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

“Our flesh shrinks from what it dreads and responds to the stimulus of what it desires by a purely reflex action of the nervous system. Our eyelid closes before we are aware that the fly is about to enter our eye.”

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

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