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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the common bacillus. Marcel Proust
Tom Stoppard quote: "I should have the courage of my lack of convictions."
I should have the courage of my lack of convictions. Tom Stoppard
Henry David Thoreau quote: "I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody..."
I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. Henry David Thoreau
And her mother still struggled in these white kitchens in town, humming sweet hymns, tiny, mild eyed and bent, her father still labored on the oyster boats; after a lifetime of labor, should they drop dead tomorrow, there would not be a penny for their burial clothes. James Baldwin
Babe,' Ranger said. 'Do something with her.' And he disconnected. I called Ranger back. 'No,' I said. 'And I need information on Jelly Kantner. His apartment got blown up, and I need to find him.' And I should do this why?' Because you like me.' There was a full beat of silence. 'I do,' Ranger said. 'I like you a lot. Sometimes I'm not sure why. Give me a couple minutes. Janet Evanovich
Mama and Papa are more to blame (for delinquency) than the kids; parents should stay home and raise their children and spend less time in taverns. Harry S. Truman
Properly speaking, should any individual ever have exact, clear knowledge of his own core consciousness?"I wouldn't know," I said."Nor would we," said the scientists. Haruki Murakami
You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way of life - the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it. Doris Lessing
I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the gauntlet of the Bulgarians, and be flogged and hanged in an auto-da-fe, and be dissected, and have to row in a galley -- in short, to undergo all the miseries we have each of us suffered -- or simply to sit here and do nothing?' That is a hard question,' said Candide. Voltaire
. . . What do you wish to be? What would you like to become?” I did not know, and I told her so, but the question worried me. Should I know? “There is time,” she said, “but the sooner you know, the sooner you can plan. To have a goal is the important thing, and to work toward it. Then, if you decide you wish to do something different, you will at least have been moving, you will have been going somewhere, you will have been learning. Louis L'Amour
We must change the system of education and instruction. Unfortunately, history has shown us that brotherhood must be learned, when it should be natural. Josephine Baker
Thomas Fuller quote: "A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial."
A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial. Thomas Fuller
Hayao Miyazaki quote: "I'm not going to make movies that tell children, "You should..."
I'm not going to make movies that tell children, "You should despair and run away". Hayao Miyazaki
If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive? . . . Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability. Ayn Rand
...it is all wrong that a person who is going to be deemed worthy of the office should himself solicit it... for no one who is not ambitious would ask to hold office. Aristotle

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