“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”

― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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“Without a sign his sword the brave man draws,And asks no omen but his country's cause.”

― Homer, Iliad

“Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.”

― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

“Almost everyone can remember losing his or her virginity, and most writers can remember the first book he/she put down thinking: I can do better than this. Hell, I am doing better than this! What could be more encouraging to the struggling writer...”

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

“If ya want a linguistic adventure, go drinkin' with a Scotsman. 'Cause ya couldn't fucking understand them before...”

― Robin Williams, Robin Williams Live On Broadway

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is...”

― Dwight D. Eisenhower, The Chance for Peace

“HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

“Only a crisis— actual or perceived—produces real change.”

― Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom

“My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, and every tongue brings in a several tale, and every tale condemns me for a villain.”

― William Shakespeare, Richard III

“For a while these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy's wing.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“our survival may depend upon our talking to one another.”

― Dan Simmons, Hyperion

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