“There's no more usual basis of union than a mutual misunderstanding.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

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“Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy's purpose.”

― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.”

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

“Snow-crystals, the flowers of the mountain clouds, are frail, beautiful things, but terrible when flying on storm-winds in darkening, benumbing swarms or when welded together into glaciers full of deadly crevasses.”

― John Muir, Stickeen

“A heavy heart bears not a nimble tongue.”

― William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost

“I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

“We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist?”

― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“If we subject the content of the dream to analysis, we become aware that the dream fear is no more justified by the dream content than the fear in a phobia is justified by the idea upon which the phobia depends.”

― Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams

“I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.”

― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they’re better.”

― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of a man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his; he will reign, and believe there, by the grace of God alone!”

― Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes

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