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“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
― Mark Twain

“Nothing brings people together more than mutual hatred.”
― Henry Rollins

“I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.”
― Margaret Mead

“Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.”
― Margaret Atwood

“Be sincere, Be brief, Be seated.”
― Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“I should let people I meet do the work of piecing me together until they can complete, or mostly complete, the puzzle. And when they’re finished they can look at the picture that they’ve managed to piece together and decide whether they like it or not. On their own time. Let them discover you.”
― Carrie Fisher, The Princess Diarist

“What you risk reveals what you value.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

“Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.”
― Anne Sexton

“A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.”
― Philippe Ariès

“Only my books anoint me,
and a few friends,
those who reach into my veins.”
― Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems

“When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for those things without which humankind cannot survive. Love that conquers hate, peace that rises triumphant over war, and justice that proves more powerful than greed.”
― Fred Rogers

“And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.”
― Plato

“You should not honor men more than truth.”
― Plato

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood