“Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest.”

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

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“But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made School Boards.”

― Mark Twain, Following the Equator

“When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'One word at a time,' and the answer is invariably dismissed. But that is all it is. It sounds too simple to be true, but consider the Great Wall of China, if you will: one stone at a time,...”

― Stephen King, The Stand

“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

“I almost wish I hadn't gone down that rabbit-hole—and yet—and yet—it's rather curious, you know, this sort of life!”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

“he who possesseth little is so much the less possessed: blessed be moderate poverty!”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“There are roads which must not be followed, armies which must be not attacked, towns which must not be besieged, positions which must not be contested, commands of the sovereign which must not be obeyed.”

― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution; it's their best advertising.”

― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“And you'll sit beside me, and we'll look, not at visions, but at realities.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“If one's strong one loves only the more strongly.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

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