“There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

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“I always run into strong women who are looking for weak men to dominate them.”

― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

“Nights without work I spent with whisky and books.”

― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recours to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.”

― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

“Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown, with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop. Many passengers would rather have stayed home.”

― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot

“History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion—i.e., none to speak of.”

― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

“Is not general incivility the very essence of love?”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt. All work of that kind should be done by a machine.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism

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

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

“To merge his life in the common tide of other lives was harder for him than any fasting or prayer and it was his constant failure to do this to his own satisfaction which caused in his soul at last a sensation of spiritual dryness together with a...”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.”

― Plutarch, Moralia

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