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I came to the conclusion that people were just peculiar, I withdrew from them, and never thought about them until I was forced to. Harper Lee
Melvin Burgess quote: "The thing that truly amazes me about myself is that I’m..."
The thing that truly amazes me about myself is that I’m actually more scared of being embarrassed than anything else. Melvin Burgess
Virginia Woolf quote: "It is remarkable…what a change of temper a fixed income will..."
It is remarkable…what a change of temper a fixed income will bring about. Virginia Woolf
The reason I don’t worry about society is, nineteen people knocked down two buildings and killed thousands. Hundreds of people ran into those buildings to save them. I’ll take those odds every f*cking day. Jon Stewart
Now in history there is no Revolution that is not a Restoration. Among the many things that leave me doubtful about the modern habit of fixing eyes on the future, none is stronger than this: that all the men in history who have really done anything with the future have had their eyes fixed upon the past. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Augusten Burroughs quote: "To be more confident you need to give a whole lot less of a..."
To be more confident you need to give a whole lot less of a shit about that other people think of you. Augusten Burroughs
Some game. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it’s a game all right – I’ll admit that. But if you get on the other side, where there aren’t any hot-shots, then what’s a game about it? J. D. Salinger
Lao Tzu quote: "Scholars of the highest class, when they hear about the Tao,..."
Scholars of the highest class, when they hear about the Tao, earnestly carry it into practice. Lao Tzu
Lewis Carroll quote: "You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you..."
You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk. Lewis Carroll
L. M. Montgomery quote: "It is not," Valency could hear her mother's prim, dictatorial..."
It is not," Valency could hear her mother's prim, dictatorial voice asserting, "it is not MAIDENLY to think about MEN. L. M. Montgomery
To be sure, Wegener made mistakes. He asserted that Greenland is drifting west at about 1.6 kilometres a year, a clear nonsense. (Its more like a centimetre.) Bill Bryson
In the oasis complex, the thirsty man images he sees water, palm trees, and shade not because he has evidence for the belief, but because he has a need for it. Desperate needs bring about a hallucination of their solution: thirst hallucinates water, the need for love hallucinates a prince or princess. The oasis complex is never a complete delusion: the man in the desert does see something on the horizon. It is just that the palms have withered, the well is dry, and the place is infected with... Alain de Botton
Madeline began hearing people saying "Derrida". She heard them saying "Lyotard" and "Foucault" and "Deleuze" and "Baudrillard". That most of these people were those she instinctually disapproved of- upper-middle-class kids who wore Doc Martens and anarchist symbols- made Madeline dubious about the value of their enthusiasm. Jeffrey Eugenides
Oh... and Bacon Surprise.' REALLY? WHAT IS SO SURPRISING ABOUT BACON? 'I don't know. I suppose it comes as something of a shock to the pig. Terry Prachett
I had written a book of short stories which was published under the title of "Uncle Tom's Children". When the review of that book began to appear, I realized that I had made an awful naive mistake. I found that I had written a book which even bankers' daughters could read and weep over and feel good about. I swore to myself that if I ever wrote another book, no one would weep over it; that it would be so hard and deep that they would have to face it without the consolation of tears. Richard Wright

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