“Go back? . . . No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

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“Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand…”

― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Not that length and weight alone indicate excellence; many epic tales are pretty much epic crap—just ask my critics, who will moan about entire Canadian forests massacred in order to print my drivel.”

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

“Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate loves to indulge in.”

― Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native

“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.”

― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“I am now sending back to Belle Plain all my wagons for a fresh supply of provisions and ammunition, and purpose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.”

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

“Haven’t you learned anything, not even with the approach of death? Stop thinking all the time that you’re in the way, that you’re bothering the person next to you. If people don’t like it, they can complain. And if they don’t have the...”

― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

“A man-trained boy would have been badly bruised, for the fall was a good fifteen feet, but Mowgli fell as Baloo had taught him to fall, and landed on his feet.”

― Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

“Anything's better than lying and deceit.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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