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“There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.”
― Ray Bradbury

“Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“How wrong to have been so negative, how wrong to have been so gloomy, how wrong to have run away from life, how wrong to have said no, again and again, instead of yes.”
― Jonathan Franzen

“I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.”
― Steve Martin

“There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read—unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they are not the same thing, as you will see if you think the matter over.”
― E. Nesbit, The Magic World

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
― Agatha Christie

“Never underestimate the meanness in people's souls... Even when they're being kind... especially when they're being kind.”
― Alice Munro

“We sit in the mud, my friend, and reach for the stars.”
― Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”
― Ivan Turgenev

“[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”

[Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“The words with which a child’s heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

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

“Takole je s tem, je rekla, ene ženske ste take, da zgledate cele boge pa take, da vas je treba zaščitit, čeprav v resnici niste. Druge pa zgledamo take, ko da vse obvladamo pa nobenega ne rabimo, potem se pa tipi zraven počutijo manjvredni. Tipi so že od pamtiveka isti, saj veš, palijo se na to, da so oni ta pametni pa ta močni, pa bog ne daj, da se jim samo zdi, da jih lahko kakšna ženska nadmudri. Takoj bodo spizdili stran pa si šli iskat kakšno, zraven katere bojo lahko carji.”
― Polona Glavan, Kakorkoli

“Sometimes the sins you haven't committed are all you have left to hold onto.”
― David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed in Flames

“We improve ourselves by victory over our self. There must be contests, and you must win.”
― Edward Gibbon

“If, instead, you find yourself often pitying someone who consistently hurts you or other people, and who actively campaigns for your sympathy, the chances are close to 100 percent that you are dealing with a sociopath.”
― Martha Stout, The Sociopath Next Door

“After listening for almost twenty-five years to the stories my patients tell me about sociopaths who have invaded and injured their lives, when I am asked, “How can I tell whom not to trust?” the answer I give usually surprises people. The natural expectation is that I will describe some sinister-sounding detail of behavior or snippet of body language or threatening use of language that is the subtle giveaway. Instead, I take people aback by assuring them that the tip-off is none of these things, for none of these things is reliably present. Rather, the best clue is, of all things, the pity play. The most reliable sign, the most universal behavior of unscrupulous people is not directed, as one might imagine, at our fearfulness. It is, perversely, an appeal to our sympathy.”
― Martha Stout, The Sociopath Next Door

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain