“How can I help being a humbug, . . . when all these people make me do things that everybody knows can't be done?”

― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

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“So long as training camps operate, so long as nations harbor terrorists, freedom is at risk. And America and our allies must not, and will not, allow it.”

― George W. Bush, State of the Union Address

“Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not. Your mother brings you into the world, carries you first in her body. What do we know about what she feels? But whatever she feels, it, at least, must be real....”

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

“Never laugh at live dragons”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“Death was not the opposite of life. It was already here, within my being, it had always been here, and no struggle would permit me to forget that.”

― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“That child whose mother has never smiled upon him is worthy neither of the table of the gods nor of the couch of the goddesses.”

― Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

“Some women's love of being loved is insatiable; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they may find that they can't give it continuously to the chamber-officer appointed by the bishop's licence to receive it.”

― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”

― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

“it is natural to believe in God when you're alone—quite alone, in the night, thinking about death...”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“I don't like trick horses. It takes all the—dignity out of a horse to make him do tricks. Why, a trick horse is kind of like an actor—no dignity, no character of his own.”

― John Steinbeck, The Red Pony

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