“If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.”

― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

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“On the other hand, if you’re just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television’s electric plug-wire, wrap a spike around it, and then stick it back into the wall. See what blows, and how far. Just an idea.”

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

“Asking questions were the most important thing.”

― Franz Kafka, The Trial

“Scepticism means not intellectual Doubt alone, but moral Doubt; all sorts of infidelity, insincerity, spiritual paralysis.”

― Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes

“Economically, men and women almost form two castes; all things being equal, the former have better jobs, higher wages, and greater chances to succeed than their new female competitors; they occupy many more places in industry, in politics, and so...”

― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid? . . . That is the only time a man can be brave”

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

“A blade of grass is a commonplace on Earth; it would be a miracle on Mars. Our descendants on Mars will know the value of a patch of green. And if a blade of grass is priceless, what is the value of a human being?”

― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot

“The world of the happy is quite another than that of the unhappy.”

― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

“DIPLOMACY, n. The patriotic art of lying for one's country.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

“When your life is on course with its purpose, you are at your most powerful. And though you may stumble, you will not fall.”

― Oprah Winfrey, What I Know For Sure

“People don't do me much good.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

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