"To be conscientious. You must first be conscious."
Akiroq Brost
"A spoon does not know whether it enters a rich or poor man's mouth."
Matshona Dhliwayo
"One reads so as not to believe everything one reads."
Aaron Haspel
"Men, I thought, were more trouble than they were worth. Really, one should stick to books where one sees the hero coming a mile off."
Eva Rice
"Kindness has a mysterious power which can transcend and transform anything it touches."
Debasish Mridha
"The poets are supposed to liberate the words – not chain them in phrases. Who told the poets they were supposed to think? Poets are meant to sing and to make words sing. Writers don't own their words. Since when do words belong to anybody? 'Your very own words,' indeed! And who are you?"
Brion Gysin
"What is knowledge but a lucid enunciation of ignorance of yesterday. If there is no darkness to dispel, there can be no light."
Anonymous
"Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster."
J. Christopher Herold
"Men always makes gods in their own image."
Xenophanes
"Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while."
Ambrose Bierce
"But the book! The siren song of the book!"
Ellen Douglas
"The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, 'Oh, the book is better."
Paulo Coelho
"What people say realistic, may not necessarily the same as what we think. At the end we will know which one Is ourselves, which one is not."
Dee Lestari
"I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy."
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