“I want to weep . . . I want to be comforted. I’m so tired of being strong. I want to be foolish and frightened for once. Just for a small while, that’s all...”

― George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

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“The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.”

― James Joyce, Ulysses

“Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”

― Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens

“Coward dogs most spend their mouths when what they seem to threaten runs far before them.”

― William Shakespeare, Henry V

“I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem—just to avoid violence.”

― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“I worship you, but I loathe marriage, I hate its smugness, its safety, its compromise, and the thought of you interfering in my work, hindering me; what would you answer?”

― Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out

“It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break, the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see a friend lose their job which sees us through our darkest hours.”

― Barack Obama, Inaugural Address

“He was conscious of nothing except the blankness of the page in front of him, the itching of the skin above his ankle, the blaring of the music, and a slight booziness caused by the gin.”

― George Orwell, 1984

“I really felt ashamed to take advantage of the ingenuousness or grateful feeling of the child for the purpose of gratifying my curiosity. I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.”

― Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop

“Nothing is more usual than to feel that others have shared in our failures, just as it is an ordinary reaction to forget those who have shared in our achievements.”

― Truman Capote, In Cold Blood

“If gods care not for me and for my children, there is a reason for it.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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