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“The world’s most brilliant confabulators are in asylums.”
― Stephen King, Revival

“Like Jonah in the belly of the whale, Tsukuru had fallen into the bowels of death, one untold day after another, lost in a dark, stagnant void.”
― Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

“You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.”
― Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

“Ideas are like beards. Men don’t have them until they grow up.”
― Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

“Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.”
― Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

“Hell yeah I’m a botanist! Fear my botany powers!”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“The holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mould yourself through the gaps.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“I was recently downsized. That’s the twenty-first-century way of saying I got canned.” She”
― Stephen King, Mr. Mercedes

“Most people are fitted with Lead Boots when they are just little kids and have to wear them all their lives. These Lead Boots are called A CONSCIENCE. I have none, so I can soar high above the heads of the Normal Crowd.”
― Stephen King, Mr. Mercedes

“You see a guy, is what you see. Only God got distracted before he could slap a dick on me and went on to the next in line.”
― Stephen King, Mr. Mercedes

“Any system created by the mind of man can be hacked by the mind of man.”
― Stephen King, Mr. Mercedes

“Who knows CPR?” asks the one who grabbed Hodges. A roadie with a long graying ponytail steps forward. He’s wearing a faded Judas Coyne tee-shirt, and his eyes are bright red. “I do, but man, I’m so stoned.” “Try”
― Stephen King, Mr. Mercedes

“when someone says they’re going to be honest with you, they are in most cases preparing to lie faster than a horse can trot.”
― Stephen King, Finders Keepers

“He felt that if you didn’t have hopes and ambitions when you were a teenager, you’d be pretty much fucked later on. About”
― Stephen King, Finders Keepers

“There is only the fight to recover what has been lost And found and lost again and again: and now, under conditions That seem unpropitious. But perhaps neither gain nor loss. For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.”
― Hillary Rodham Clinton, What Happened

“I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. Life is no “brief candle” to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment; and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. —George Bernard Shaw”
― Hillary Rodham Clinton, What Happened

“I was happy, I think, but I wonder now if my memory is playing tricks on me. If it is giving me the gift of an illusion. We all layer them over our remembrances; the filters through which we want to see our lives.”
― Greer Hendricks, The Wife Between Us

“Your children are not your children. They come through you but not from you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you, for life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.”
― Hillary Rodham Clinton, What Happened

“Savagery in the quest for power is older than the Bible, but some of my opponents really hate my guts.”
― Bill Clinton, The President Is Missing

“Sooner or later, every president faces decisions in which the right choice is bad politics, at least in the short term. If the stakes are high, you have to do what you think is right and hope the political tide will turn. It’s the job you promised to do.”
― Bill Clinton, The President Is Missing

“You boys aren’t rich enough to afford not to pay attention.”
― Bill Clinton, The President Is Missing

“There is a reason that the founders of our country put a civilian in charge of the military. Because it is not only about military effectiveness. It’s also about policy, about values, about what we stand for as a nation.”
― Bill Clinton, The President Is Missing

“The first two times you heard me speak, I sounded like a fool. I made about as much sense as a top hat on a mule. I wasn’t sure a third attempt would do me any better, So I decided that I’d put my thoughts down in a letter.”
― Bill Clinton, The President Is Missing

“All too often, those who rail against “them” prevail over earnest pleas to remember what “we” can be and do together. Our brains have worked this way for a long time. Maybe they always will. But we have to keep trying. That’s the permanent mission our Founding Fathers left us—moving toward the “more perfect union.”
― Bill Clinton, The President Is Missing

“At the end of the Constitutional Convention, a citizen asked Benjamin Franklin what kind of government our founders had given us. He replied, “A republic, if you can keep it.” That’s a job no president can do alone. It’s up to all of us to keep it. And to make the most of it.”
― Bill Clinton, The President Is Missing

“saints are just sinners who keep trying”
― J.T. Lawrence, Sticky Fingers

“The very last thing a terminally ill patient wants is to be fussed over with antibiotics and feeding tubes in order to prolong his pain, but this is often what families insist on. They panic and press red buttons and jam oxygen masks over their loved ones’ faces, despite their clear DNR stickers, because they are the ones afraid of death.”
― J.T. Lawrence, Sticky Fingers

“While a memory is a mental snapshot of a moment, it carries with it layers of emotion and texture and scent. Your experience will differ to the person who is standing right next to you, and as the moment is imprinted in your brain, it’s coloured by your mood and life experiences.”
― JT Lawrence, Sticky Fingers 2

“you go where the facts lead you.”
― Stephen King, End of Watch

“A nation is born stoic, and dies epicurean. At its cradle (to repeat a thoughtful adage) religion stands, and philosophy accompanies it to the grave.
In the beginning of all cultures a strong religious faith conceals and softens the nature of things, and gives men courage to bear pain and hardship patiently; at every step the gods are with them, and will not let them perish, until they do. Even then a firm faith will explain that it was the sins of the people that turned their gods to an avenging wrath; evil does not destroy faith, but strengthens it. If victory comes, if war is forgotten in security and peace, then wealth grows; the life of the body gives way, in the dominant classes, to the life of the senses and the mind; toil and suffering are replaced by pleasure and ease; science weakens faith even while thought and comfort weaken virility and fortitude. At last men begin to doubt the gods; they mourn the tragedy of knowledge, and seek refuge in every passing delight.
Achilles is at the beginning, Epicurus at the end. After David comes Job, and after Job, Ecclesiastes.”
― Will Durant, Our Oriental Heritage