“Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they’re better.”

― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

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“Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these masses of men like a cannon ball, or steal among them like a plague.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Father Goriot

“If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger”

― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.”

― John Steinbeck, Tortilla Flat

“We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it’s too late.”

― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“The moment we recognize that the self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action, the whole situation clears up.”

― John Dewey, Democracy and Education

“Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”

― Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens

“There were churches in that part of Ohio where treason was preached regularly, and where, to secure membership, hostility to the government, to the war and to the liberation of the slaves, was far more essential than a belief in the authenticity...”

― Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

“A woman never overcomes these problems by any exercise of thought. They are not to be solved, or only in one way. If her heart chance to come uppermost, they vanish.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

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