“EGOTIST, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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“Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for, when they scrawl their names in the snow.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud. DO NOT COMPLAIN. Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change...”

― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

“Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade.”

― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“The heart breaks when, after having been elated by flattering hopes, it sees all its illusions destroyed.”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.”

― Richard Branson, Losing My Virginity

“One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“Henrietta was a literary woman, and the great advantage of being a literary woman was that you could go everywhere and do everything.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

“The amount of civilization is measured by the quantity of imagination.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling in drink.... I drink so that I may suffer twice as much!”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

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