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“The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

“Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. Use your memory! Use your memory! It is those bitter seeds alone which might sprout and grow someday.

Look around you - there are people around you. Maybe you will remember one of them all your life and later eat your heart out because you didn't make use of the opportunity to ask him questions. And the less you talk, the more you'll hear.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

“When a man ain't got no ideas of his own," said Scipio, "he'd ought to be kind o' careful who he borrows 'em from.”
― Owen Wister, The Virginian, a Horseman of the Plains

“When you call me that, smile.”
― Owen Wister, The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains

“But if I had lived to be twenty-nine years old like I am, and with all my chances made no enemy, I'd feel myself a failure.”
― Owen Wister, The Virginian, a Horseman of the Plains

“When a man is kind to dumb animals, I always say he has got some good in him.”
― Owen Wister, The Virginian

“When a man ain't got no ideas of his own, he'd ought to be kind o' careful who he borrows 'em from.”
― Owen Wister, The Virginian

“If you can't say something nice, don't say nothing at all.”
― Thumper