“The distant rear of an army engaged in battle is not the best place from which to judge correctly what is going on in front.”

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

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“people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it.”

― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Many besides Angel have learnt that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

“Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.”

― Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson

“People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

“Give a girl an education, and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without farther expense to anybody.”

― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“Almost everyone can remember losing his or her virginity, and most writers can remember the first book he/she put down thinking: I can do better than this. Hell, I am doing better than this! What could be more encouraging to the struggling writer...”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“The man, who is guided by reason, is more free in a State, where he lives under a general system of law, than in solitude, where he is independent.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

“Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.”

― Mark Twain, Following the Equator

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