"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
— Albert Camus

"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."
— Albert Camus

"There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for."
— Albert Camus

"Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies. And the fact that men accept this, that the people’s anger has not destroyed these hollow clowns, strikes me as proof that men attribute no importance to the way they are governed; that they gamble – yes, gamble – with a whole part of their life and their so called 'vital interests."
— Albert Camus

"I'll Die For Your Sins If You Live For mine.

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— Jim Carroll (Fear of Dreaming: The Selected Poems)

"Nobody comes to Minnesota to take their clothes off, at least as far as I know."
— Diablo Cody (Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper)

"You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music."
— Annie Proulx

"If you can't fix it, you have to stand it."
— Annie Proulx

"I would rather be dead than not read"
— Annie Proulx

"Maybe this world is another planet’s hell."
— Aldous Huxley

"Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic."
— Aldous Huxley

"An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex."
— Aldous Huxley

"I like being myself. Myself and nasty."
— Aldous Huxley (Brave New World)

"Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you."
— Aldous Huxley

"I am I, and I wish I weren't."
— Aldous Huxley (Brave New World)

"Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities."
— Aldous Huxley

"Everything's already been said, but since nobody was listening, we have to start again."
— André Gide

"What on earth would a man do with himself, if something did not stand in his way?"
— H.G. Wells

""Have you ever noticed that when people use the expression 'I have to say', what follows usually needn't be said?""
— Richard Russo (Bridge of Sighs)

"We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path."
— Paulo Coelho

"I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses."
— Alexandre Dumas (Signature Classics - The Man in the Iron Mask)

"I only had sex with her because I'm in love with you. "
— Bret Easton Ellis (The Rules of Attraction)

"Our lives are not all interconnected. That theory is a crock. Some people truly do not need to be here."
— Bret Easton Ellis

"Actually,I am a failed anorexic. I have anorexic thinking, but I can't seem to muster the behavoir"
— Carrie Fisher (Postcards from the Edge)

"Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald

"One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it. "
— E.M. Forster

"Don't compromise yourself - you're all you have."
— John Grisham (The Rainmaker)

" I lie to myself all the time, but I never believe me."
— S.E. Hinton (The Outsiders)

"Sometimes I wish I could walk around with a HANDLE WITH CARE sign stuck to my forehead. "
— Elizabeth Wurtzel (Prozac Nation)

"He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past."
— George Orwell (1984)

"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. "
— George Orwell

"All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others."
— George Orwell (Animal Farm)

"The cruelest lies are often told in silence. "
— Robert Louis Stevenson

"I have two rules in life - to hell with it, whatever it is, and get your work done."
— Ray Bradbury

"You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget."
— Cormac McCarthy (The Road)

"Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. "
— James Baldwin

"The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

"Today is the sort of day where the sun only comes up to humiliate you."
— Chuck Palahniuk

"If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes."
— Chuck Palahniuk

"They are all alike you know. They hold their tongues for years and you think you're safe, but when the opportunity comes they remember everything."
— Edith Wharton

"When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice"
— Saul Bellow

"Dear Jesus, do something."
— Vladimir Nabokov (Pale Fire)

"No medicine cures what happiness cannot."
— Gabriel García Márquez

"What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it."
— Gabriel García Márquez

"If I knew that today would be the last time I’d see you, I would hug you tight and pray the Lord be the keeper of your soul. If I knew that this would be the last time you pass through this door, I’d embrace you, kiss you, and call you back for one more. If I knew that this would be the last time I would hear your voice, I’d take hold of each word to be able to hear it over and over again. If I knew this is the last time I see you, I’d tell you I love you, and would not just assume foolishly you know it already."
— Gabriel García Márquez

"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me."
— Hunter S. Thompson

"Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex."
— Hunter S. Thompson

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough"
— Mae West