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“Anyone who's really interested in anything spends time alone.”
― Curtis Sittenfeld, Prep

“Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”
― Paul Terry

“It takes courage to die for a cause, but also to live for one.”
― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

“Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“It was as if he had come to mistrust words somehow. Words, and the sentiments words carried.”
― Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

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― Mark Dunn, Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters

“Music is part of being human.”
― Oliver W. Sacks, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

“In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most people display.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey

“People are always ruining things for you.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“As Estha stirred the thick jam he thought Two Thoughts and the Two Thoughts he thought were these:
a) Anything can happen to anyone.
and
b) It is best to be prepared.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

“Why did we do that to Pluto? We had it good with Pluto.”
― Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

“Every window in Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco. ”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

“13.5 Mrs. Wolfe asks whether Mr. Iqbal expects her Susan to undertake compulsory headstands.

13.6 Mr. Iqbal infers that, considering Susan's academic performance and weight problems, a headstand regime might be desirable.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

“Marley was dead: to begin with.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“On the avenue, dark and tree-lined, shop windows began to blink on.”
― Juan Filloy, Op Oloop

“Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“I have had all I can stand of not taking myself seriously.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Bluebeard

“So there are cakes and pillows and colors galore, but underneath this more obvious patchwork quilt are places like a quiet room where you can go and hold someone's hand and not have to say anything.”
― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

“It is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“Goddamn sometimes I only want this feeling to stay and last.”
― Dave Eggers, How We Are Hungry

“Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.”
― Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger

“It can only take a moment to waste the rest of your life.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Snuff

“I no longer believe that we can keep silent. We never really do, mind you.”
― Azar Nafisi, Things I've Been Silent About

“The utterly empty bottle of his soul.”
― Deb Olin Unferth, Vacation

“And then she had to fill out so many forms she forgot why she had come and what she had left behind.”
― Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club

“All right, then, I'll go to hell.”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“Mr. Barnes, it is because I have lived very much that now I can enjoy everything so well”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“There is no faith like the faith of a builder of homes in coastal Louisiana”
― Dave Eggers, Zeitoun

“I felt suddenly very young - or perhaps I felt my age.”
― Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist

“It was a hobbit hole, and that means comfort”
― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again