"Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other."
— Anatole Broyard

"A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth."
— Gabriel García Márquez

"Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive."
— E. M. Cioran

"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"They say of me, and so they should,
It's doubtful if I come to good.
I see acquaintances and friends
Accumulating dividends
And making enviable names
In science, art and parlor games.
But I, despite expert advice,
Keep doing things I think are nice,
And though to good I never come
Inseparable my nose and thumb."
— Dorothy Parker

"There are books in which the footnotes, or the comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin, are more interesting than the text. The world is one of those books."
— George Santayana

"There was a reason for the cost of those perfectly plain black dresses"
— Dorothy Parker (The Portable Dorothy Parker)

"If I loved you less, I could say more."
— Jane Austen

"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."
— Jane Austen