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In this way, writers are indeed, as Henry Miller suggested, traitors to the human race. We may turn a light on inequity, injustice, and oppression from time to time, but we regularly kill what we love in insidious fashion. Anthony Bourdain
Twin, I think you should not have dreamt that, for I didn't, and Peter may say we oughtn't to dream differently, being twins, you know. J. M. Barrie
I think about my education sometimes. I went to the University of Chicago for awhile after the Second World War. I was a student in the Department of Anthropology. At that time they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody. They may be teaching that still. Another thing they taught was that no one was ridiculous or bad or disgusting. Shortly before my father died, he said to me, ‘You know – you never wrote a story with a villain in it.’ I told him that was one... Kurt Vonnegut
William Shakespeare quote: "Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may..."
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. William Shakespeare
Frederick Douglass quote: "A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied..."
A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity. Frederick Douglass
What this means in practice is that if you are not a born worrier you have nothing to worry about (though of course you wouldn't be worrying anyway), whereas if you are a worrier by nature there is absolutely nothing you can do about it, so you may as well stop worrying, except of course you can't. Bill Bryson
Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on earth. Mitch Albom
Bram Stoker quote: "Perhaps I may gain more knowledge out of the folly of this..."
Perhaps I may gain more knowledge out of the folly of this madman than I shall from the teaching of the most wise. Bram Stoker
However low he may fall, a man can never deny himself the delight of feeling cleverer, more powerful or even better fed than his companions. Maxim Gorky
Without individuals we see only numbers: a thousand dead, a hundred thousand dead, “casualties may rise to a million.” With individual stories, the statistics become people – but even that is a lie, for the people continue to suffer, in the numbers that themselves are numbing and meaningless. Neil Gaiman
Even in merely reading a fairytale, we must let go our daylight convictions and trust ourselves to be guided by dark figures, in silence; and when we come back, it may be very hard to describe where we have been. Ursula K. Le Guin
Raymond Chandler quote: "Sooner or later I may figure out why you like being a kept..."
Sooner or later I may figure out why you like being a kept poodle. Raymond Chandler
Whatever torch we kindle, and whatever space it may illuminate, our horizon will always remain encircled by the depth of night. Arthur Schopenhauer
You never know," Jack said speculatively. "There may come a time when savages like William Hamleigh aren't in power; when the laws protect the ordinary people instead of enslaving them; when the king makes peace instead of war. Think of that - a time when towns in England don't need walls! Ken Follet
All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything. Napoleon Bonaparte

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