“One drinks up a flattering lie in great gulps, whereas a bitter truth one sips drop by drop”

― Denis Diderot, Rameau's Nephew

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“We don't talk, we hold forth. We don't converse, we expound.”

― J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

“Hollywood’s a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents.”

― Marilyn Monroe, My Story

“A ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”

― Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Therefore a wise prince ought to adopt such a course that his citizens will always in every sort and kind of circumstance have need of the state and of him, and then he will always find them faithful.”

― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing.”

― Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Coming Race

“If the absolutely pure, uncalculating, unpractical spirit of adventure had ever ruled a human being, it ruled this bepatched youth. I almost envied him the possession of this modest and clear flame.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“Life is just chemicals. A drop here, a drip there, everything’s changed. A mere dribble of fermented juices and suddenly you’re going to live another few hours.”

― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

“The goals we pursue are always veiled. A girl who longs for marriage longs for something she knows nothing about. The boy who hankers after fame has no idea what fame is. The thing that gives our every move its meaning is always totally unknown...”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“The pain was brilliant, like a poisonous inspiration.”

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

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