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“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Do you hate people?”

“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
― Charles Bukowski, Barfly

“No human ever became interesting by not failing. The more you fail and recover and improve, the better you are as a person. Ever meet someone who’s ALWAYS had EVERYTHING work out for them with ZERO struggle? They usually have the depth of a puddle. Or they don’t exist.”
― Chris Hardwick

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
― Victor Hugo

“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”
― Victor Hugo

“Any writer who knows what he's doing isn't doing very much.”
― Nelson Algren

“To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.”
― Nelson Algren

“If Jesus Christ treated me like you do, I’d drive in the nails myself.”
― Nelson Algren, The Man with the Golden Arm

“A library is infinity under a roof.”
― Gail Carson Levine

“It is helpful to know the proper way to behave, so one can decide whether or not to be proper.”
― Gail Carson Levine, Ella Enchanted

“You're Only the fairest when your fairest to yourself”
― Gail Carson Levine

“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.”
― Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark

“Where there is great love, there are always miracles.”
― Willa Cather

“I wondered if the life that was right for one was ever right for two!”
― Willa Cather

“Success is never so interesting as struggle”
― Willa Cather

“Out, damned spot! out, I say!—One, two; why, then ‘tis time to do’t.—Hell is murky!—Fie, my lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account?—Yet who would have thought the old man to have so much blood in him? The thane of Fife had a wife; where is she now?—What, will these hands ne’er be clean?—No more o’that, my lord, no more o’that: you mar all with this starting. Here’s the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Oh, oh, oh!”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“A little water clears us of this deed.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“Receive what cheer you may. The night is long that never finds the day.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“Courage is grace under pressure.”
― ernest hemingway

“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“nothing can save
you
except
writing.
it keeps the walls
from
failing.”
― Charles Bukowski

“If you are going to try, go all the way or don't even start. If you follow it you will be alive with the gods. It is the only good fight there is.”
― Charles Bukowski

“I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.”
― Walt Whitman, Song of Myself

“I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.”
― Walt Whitman, Song of Myself

“When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring