“Stars are beautiful, but they may not take an active part in anything, they must just look on for ever. It is a punishment put on them for something they did so long ago that no star now knows what it was. So the older ones have become glassy-eyed and seldom speak (winking is the star language), but the little ones still wonder.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan.
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― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan.
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“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
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- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
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"Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength."
- Thomas Pynchon
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- Thomas Pynchon
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“We must be as stealthy as rats in the wainscoting of their society. It was easier in the old days, of course, and society had more rats when the rules were looser, just as old wooden buildings have more rats than concrete buildings. But there are rats in the building now as well. Now that society is all ferrocrete and stainless steel there are fewer gaps in the joints. It takes a very smart rat indeed to find these openings. Only a stainless steel rat can be at home in this environment...”
- Harry Harrison, The Stainless Steel Rat
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- Harry Harrison, The Stainless Steel Rat
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“I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.”
- Bram Stoker, Dracula.
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- Bram Stoker, Dracula.
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“I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.”
- Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil
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- Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil
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“You have plenty of courage, I am sure," answered Oz. "All you need is confidence in yourself. There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty.”
- Lyman Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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- Lyman Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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“Here richly, with ridiculous display,
The Politician's corpse was laid away.
While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged
I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.”
- Hilaire Belloc
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The Politician's corpse was laid away.
While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged
I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.”
- Hilaire Belloc
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“Love, however, cannot be forbidden. The more that flame is covered up, the hotter it burns. Also love can always find a way. It was impossible that these two whose hearts were on fire should be kept apart.”
- Edith Hamilton, Mythology
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“If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
- Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
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- Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
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“No, my friend. We are lunatics from the hospital up the highway, psycho-ceramics, the cracked pots of mankind. Would you like me to decipher a Rorschach for you?”
- Ken Kesey. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
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- Ken Kesey. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
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“But the Hebrew word, the word timshel — ‘Thou (=you) mayest’ — that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not. Don’t you see?”
- John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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- John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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“Mr. Wonka: "Don’t forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he wanted."
Charlie Bucket: "What happened?"
Mr. Wonka: "He lived happily ever after.”
- Roald Dahl. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
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Charlie Bucket: "What happened?"
Mr. Wonka: "He lived happily ever after.”
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“Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety, and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. Bless us, if it may be, in all our innocent endeavours. If it may not, give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we may be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temparate in wrath, and in all changes of fortune, and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving to one another.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson.
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― Robert Louis Stevenson.
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“What exactly was the difference? He wondered to himself. And who decided which people wore the striped pajamas and which people wore the uniforms?”
- John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
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- John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
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“Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.”
― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
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“If them other guys gets in jail they can rot for all anybody gives a damn. But not us." Lennie broke in. "But not us! An' why? Because... because I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why.”
- John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
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“The jeep would round the bend, be hit by a dozen bullets at once, and that would be the end of his petty history of unfocused groping and unimportant dissatisfactions.”
- Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead
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“I drink to make other people more interesting.”
- Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea.
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- Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea.
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“The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at the positive end. The way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training.”
- Frank Herbert, Dune.
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- Frank Herbert, Dune.
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