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“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

“Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

“Scared money can’t win and a worried man can’t love.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

“Truth really isn't stranger than fiction, no matter what they say. Most times you know exactly how things are going to turn out.”
― Stephen King, Misery

“His so-fucking-vivid imagination rarely gave him the horrors, but when it did, God help him. God help him once it was warmed up. It was not only warmed up now, it was hot and running on full choke. That there was no sense at all in what he was thinking made not a whit of difference in the dark. In the dark, rationality seemed stupid and logic a dream. In the dark he thought with his skin.”
― Stephen King, Misery

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
― Rumi

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.”
― Heraclitus

“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living