“I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.”

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

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“The man that hath no music in himself,Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils;”

― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

“For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite the man that mocks at it and sets it light.”

― William Shakespeare, Richard II

“Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff;Life and these lips have long been separated:Death lies on her like an untimely frostUpon the sweetest flower of all the field.”

― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“These flow'rs are like the pleasures of the world; this bloody man, the care on't.”

― William Shakespeare, Cymbeline

“the beginning of torture is the worst. There is a parabola of agony. A crescendo leading up to a peak and then the nerves are blunted and react progressively less until unconsciousness and death.”

― Ian Fleming, Casino Royale

“When money ceases to be the tool by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of men.”

― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“It is my belief that action under this section should be suspended until the Congress can reconsider the entire question in the light of the experience that has been developed since its enactment.”

― Calvin Coolidge, State of the Union Address

“There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.”

― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable what then?”

― George Orwell, 1984

“When you’re a child you’re the center of everything. Everything happens for you.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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