"Tolerate the ... Process of coming to knowledge or certainty or clarity through sometimes apparently hopeless thickets of confusion or bewilderment. Learn not to be surprised or disheartened by the muddle you inhabit and not to press too soon for a superficial reprieve."
Joe David Bellamy
"A cat is friendly in a hollow sort of way, like the way a prostitute is friendly."
Jonathan-David Jackson
"If you want to know how old a woman is . . . Ask her sister-in-law."
Edgar Howe
"And read… read all the time… read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life."
David McCullough Jr.
"Just believe everything I tell you, and it will all be very, very simple.'Ah, well, I'm not sure I believe that."
Douglas Adams
"Wouldn't the worst be, isn't the worst, in truth, that women aren't castrated, that they have only to stop listening to the Sirens (for the Sirens were men) for history to change its meaning?"
Hélène Cixous
"I was like you once, long time ago. I believed in the dignity of man. Decency. Humanity. But I was lucky. I found out the truth early, boy. And what is the truth, Stark? It's all very simple. There's no such thing as the dignity of man. Man is a base, pathetic and vulgar animal."
Charles Grandison Finney
"The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from."
John Still
"It is silent, an anagram for listen. That is what I do. Listen while she remains silent."
Eric Jerome Dickey
"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
"Of course I do know it is the French who are so wicked; but there are all these people who keep coming and going - the Austrians, the Spaniards, the Russians. Pray, are the Russians good now? It would be very shocking - treason no doubt - to put the wrong people in my prayers."
Patrick O'Brian
"Secrets are a responsibility and a painfully taxing one at that."
Jonas Lee
"Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of."
Robert Benchley
"This is what technology wants, it wants to be a symptom. Like all psychological symptoms, it obscures a problem by 'solving' it without addressing it."
Sherry Turkle
"The easiest thing for a person is to accept everything as it is and adjust with everyone in the surroundings by sacrificing or compromising originality, but it's also the worst thing if he proclaims that he has changed himself."
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