"This is not a dirty little secret which was discovered just yesterday. But, if you follow the Golden Rule, good things happen to you and those around you."
Michael A. Contés II
"Peter held up the book he had been reading: 'Moby-Dick; or, The Whale'.'To tell you the truth, I'm not even sure this is English,' Peter said. 'It's taken me most of today to get through a page."
Justin Cronin
"In the age of ideologies, we must make up our minds about murder. If murder has rational foundations, then our period and we ourselves have significance. If it has no such foundations, then we are plunged into madness there is no way out except to find some significance or to desist."
Albert Camus
"The cat is the beautiful devil."
Charles Bukowski
"The literary man re-reads, other men simply read."
C.S. Lewis
"A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be."
Charles Sanders Peirce
"When they're talking about me they're letting someone else rest."
Debra Webb
"I hate books they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Some writers aren't writers, they are mere escapees' and refugees' on an exile from the jungle of thoughts."
Anonymous
"Lost time is never found again."
Benjamin Franklin
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
James D. Nicoll
"Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle."
Sharon Salzberg
"The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box."
Thomas Huxley
"Triumphant moments are for wise thinkers..."
Raajesh Pillai
"Recollection, I have found, is usually about half invention..."
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