“Isabel’s written in a foreign tongue. I can’t make her out.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

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“The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy, but they were listening in gibberish.”

― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

“that war is just which is necessary, and arms are hallowed when there is no other hope but in them.”

― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“But when one is young one must see things, gather experience, ideas; enlarge the mind.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can't. And, of course, whenever the masses seized political power, then it was happiness rather than truth and beauty that mattered.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“I was only going to say that heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I...”

― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of literature. And so it goes.”

― Dan Simmons, Hyperion

“What’s a philosopher? . . . Someone who’s bright enough to find a job with no heavy lifting”

― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

“For Man to tell how human life began is hard; for who himself beginning knew desire with thee still longer to converse induced me.”

― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?”

― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

“This is night, Diddykins. That’s what we call it when it goes all dark like this.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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