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“And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself.”
― Charles Dickens, Bleak House

“We need never be ashamed of our tears.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“You have been the last dream of my soul.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.”
― Charles Dickens

“Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

“All partings foreshadow the great final one.”
― Charles Dickens, Bleak House

“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“And so it goes...”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't going to want to go on living.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“Everything is nothing, with a twist.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan

“Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan

“That is the first thing I know for sure: (1.) If the questions don't make sense, neither will the answers.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan

“Isn't hate merely the result of wounded love?”
― Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club

“I won't be what I'm not.
-Jing-mei”
― Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club

“Your life is what you see in front of you.
-An-mei”
― Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club

“For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only be me. ”
― Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club

“Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.”
― Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club

“Too many good things all seem the same after a while. ”
― Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club

“To come so far, to lose so much and to find nothing.
-Jing-mei”
― Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club

“Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.”
― Arthur Miller, The Crucible

“A fire, a fire is burning! I hear the boot of Lucifer, I see his filthy face! And it is my face, and yours, Danforth! For them that quail to bring men out of ignorance, as I have quailed, and as you quail now when you know in all your black hearts that this be fraud – God damns our kind especially, and we will burn, we will burn together!”
― Arthur Miller, The Crucible

“it's the proper morning to fly into Hell.”
― Arthur Miller, The Crucible

“Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.”
― Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time