“So, that's what they wanted: lies. Beautiful lies. That's what they needed. People were fools. It was going to be easy for me.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

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“If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbour? A comfortable career of prosperity, if it does not make people honest, at least keeps them so.”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“injuries ought to be done all at one time, so that, being tasted less, they offend less; benefits ought to be given little by little, so that the flavour of them may last longer.”

― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards”

― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass

“Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them—especially as against the rivals, other children, and first and foremost as against their brothers and sisters.”

― Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams

“The people who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.”

― Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

“Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry IV

“you know how silly you are when you're in love.”

― Boris Vian, Froth on the Daydream

“So I don't know about bores. Maybe you shouldn't feel too sorry if you see some swell girl getting married to them. They don't hurt anybody, most of them, and maybe they're secretly all terrific whistlers or something.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“So early in life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.”

― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what it has to say.”

― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

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