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“Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.”
― Spike Milligan

“A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.”
― Gertrude Stein, Picasso

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

“All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life—where do they put their body, hour by hour, and how do they cope inside of it.”
― Miranda July, It Chooses You

“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.”
― Marie Curie

“By definition, you have to live until you die. Better to make that life as complete and enjoyable an experience as possible, in case death is shite, which I suspect it will be.”
― Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting

“Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.”
― Margaret Drabble