“This race and this country and this life produced me . . . I shall express myself as I am.”

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

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“It can only take a moment . . . to waste the rest of your life...”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Snuff

“My fellow Americans, I stand before you today, humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices born by our ancestors.”

― Barack Obama, Inaugural Address

“He needed to bask himself in that smile . . . in order that the chill of so many lonely hours among his books might be taken off the scholar's heart.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“The moonlight lay everywhere with the natural peace that is granted to no other light.”

― Franz Kafka, The Trial

“Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.”

― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“Even that has its reason; it is often better to be in chains than to be free.”

― Franz Kafka, The Trial

“People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of science or books of metaphysics. The reason is very simple; it is merely that the novel is more true than they are.”

― G. K. Chesterton, Heretics

“Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it. No matter how many times the results of experiments agree with some theory, you can never be sure that the next time the result will not...”

― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

“The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

“It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill. But such falls and betrayals, alas, have happened before.”

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

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