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P. G. Wodehouse quote: "I never want to see anyone, and I never want to go anywhere or..."
I never want to see anyone, and I never want to go anywhere or do anything. I just want to write. P. G. Wodehouse
Leo Tolstoy quote: "Il ne faut jamais rien outrer: One must do nothing in excess"
Il ne faut jamais rien outrer: One must do nothing in excess Leo Tolstoy
I have known many of those pretended champions for liberty in my time, yet do I not remember one that was not in his heart and in his family a tyrant. Oliver Goldsmith
Think too much and you know you are nothing. Think just enough and you know you are small, but important to some. That's the best you can do. Dave Eggers
The past could always be annihilated; regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable. There were passions in him that would find their terrible outlet, dreams that would make the shadow of their evil real. Oscar Wilde
Heraclitus quote: "The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what..."
The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become. Heraclitus
Colonel Tom Parker quote: "Either operate from a position of advantage, or do not operate."
Either operate from a position of advantage, or do not operate. Colonel Tom Parker
Lao Tzu quote: "All in the world know the beauty of the beautiful, and in..."
All in the world know the beauty of the beautiful, and in doing this they have (the idea of) what ugliness is; Lao Tzu
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed..."
Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad? mathematicians go mad. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Ayn Rand quote: "There's no such thing as a lousy job-only lousy men who don't..."
There's no such thing as a lousy job-only lousy men who don't care to do it. Ayn Rand
Things begin, things end. Just when we seem to arrive at a quiet place, we are swept up, suddenly, between the body's smoothe, functioning predictability, and the need for disruption. We do irrational things, outrageous things. Or else something will come along and intervene, an unimaginable foe. Carol Shields
We aim at experience in the particular centres in which alone it is evil. We avoid classification. We do not deny it. But when a man is classified something is lost. T. S. Eliot
She would have stood by Giles’s side, and shaken hands with people, a smile on her face. I could not do that. I had not the pride, I had not the guts. I was badly bred. Daphne du Maurier
Spiritual superiority only sees the individual. But alas, ordinarily we human beings are sensual and, therefore, as soon as it is a gathering, the impression changes- we see something abstract, the crowd, and we become different. But in the eyes of God, the infinite spirit, all the millions that have lived and now live do not make a crowd, He only sees each individual. Soren Kierkegaard
It's stores, it's the whole thing, all that shit everywhere, 'scuse me, that merchandise, all those goods, and ads screaming at you from all over the place, buy buy buy buy buy, and when somebody comes up to me with big hair and gobs of makeup on and says, `Can I help you?`, it's all I can do not to scream, `Bitch, you can't even help yourself. Michael Cunningham

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