“You jus' stand there and don't say nothing. If he finds out what a crazy bastard you are, we won't get no job, but if he sees ya work before he hears ya talk, we're set.”

― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

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“How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can’t scare him—he has known a fear beyond every other.”

― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.”

― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

“If your little savage were left to fend for himself, if he kept all his natural artlessness and then united the minimal reasoning power of an infant with the violent passions of a man of thirty, he'd strangle his father and bed his mother.”

― Denis Diderot, Rameau's Nephew

“To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.”

― James Joyce, Ulysses

“It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.”

― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

“Some people say that science clears up all the mysteries for us. In my opinion it only creates more!”

― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

“Life was not so horrible if it was meaningless, and he faced it with a strange sense of power.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“No, not one shall be forgotten who was great in the world. But each was great in his own way, and each in proportion to the greatness of that which he loved. For he who loved himself became great by himself, and he who loved other men became...”

― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

“Every one needs to talk to some one . . . Before we had religion and other nonsense. Now for every one there should be some one to whom one can speak frankly, for all the valor that one could have one becomes very alone.”

― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

“To say 'I love you’ one must know first how to say the ’I.’”

― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

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