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“Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.”
― Steve Martin

“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
― A.A. Milne

“Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.”
― Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot

“Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.”
― Jane Yolen, Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood

“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.”
― Galileo Galilei

“Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.”
― W.H. Auden, New Year Letter

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon

“Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.”
― John Updike, Self-Consciousness

“What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.”
― Edward Albee