"Metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with."
Milan Kundera
"Remember particularly that you cannot be a judge of any one. For no one can judge a criminal, until he recognises that he is just such a criminal as the man standing before him, and that he perhaps is more than all men to blame for that crime."
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"Never make enemies of anyone younger or healthier than you are. They write your history."
Jacob M. Appel
"The Tanzanian told her that all fiction was therapy, some sort of therapy, no matter what anybody said."
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
"The mind speaks, thought it does not have lips. The heart moves, though it does not have feet. The soul rises, though it does not have wings."
Anonymous
"Everything is language."
Octavio Paz
"What’s the old saying? Ah, I remember now. ‘Curiosity flayed the cat alive, ripped it apart limb from limb, and listened to it scream before it killed it.’ That’s the one."
Simon Holt
"Oyin Da’s mind is as elegant as a French horn, thoughts moving in whorls and evoking fresh mint leaves."
Tade Thompson
"I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can do."
Lucille Ball
"If what we think of ourselves were true, the planet would overflow with geniuses."
Dejan Stojanovic
"You gotta be careful: don't say a word to nobody about nothing anytime ever."
Johnny Depp
"All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it."
John Ruskin
"To stand in true relations with men in a false age is worth a fit of insanity, is it not?"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"He liked to address every man in his own language, as a good European should."
H.G. Wells
"Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government."
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