“I didn't want to be anything anyhow. And I was certainly succeeding.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

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“But that's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doing it all over again, because he knows very well it is important and worth the doing.”

― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“The struggle of to-day is not altogether for to-day; it is for a vast future also. With a reliance on Providence all the more firm and earnest, let us proceed in the great task which events have devolved upon us.”

― Abraham Lincoln, State of the Union Address

“When we do not know the truth of a thing, it is of advantage that there should exist a common error which determines the mind of man, as, for example, the moon, to which is attributed the change of seasons, the progress of diseases, etc.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“Through the gathering momentum of millions of acts of service and decency and kindness, I know we can overcome evil with greater good.”

― George W. Bush, State of the Union Address

“nobody has ever figured out the cause of government stupidity—and until they do (and find the cure), all ideal plans will fall into quicksand.”

― Richard Feynman, What Do You Care What Other People Think?

“In short, I conceive that great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of the value of things, and by their giving too much for their whistles.”

― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there.”

― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

“Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.”

― William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor

“They were within twenty yards of each other, and so abrupt was his appearance, that it was impossible to avoid his sight. Their eyes instantly met, and the cheeks of both were overspread with the deepest blush. He absolutely started, and for a...”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of the resurrection.”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism

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