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“The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.”
― Mark Twain

“I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

“In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.”
― Evelyn Waugh

“Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
― Stephen Fry

“An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.”
― Stephen Fry

“Besides the neutral expression that she wore when she was alone, Mrs. Freeman had two others, forward and reverse, that she used for all her human dealings. Her forward expression was steady and driving like the advance of a heavy truck. Her eyes never swerved to left or right but turned as the story turned as if they followed a yellow line down the center of it. She seldom used the other expression because it was not often necessary for her to retract a statement, but when she did, her face came to a complete stop, there was an almost imperceptible movement of her black eyes, during which they seemed to be receding, and then the observer would see that Mrs. Freeman, though she might stand there as real as several grain sacks thrown on top of each other, was no longer there in spirit.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“Among the members of these upper income groups are US academic economists, many of whom believe that the economy of the United States is working fairly well and, in particular, that it rewards talent and merit accurately and precisely. This is a very comprehensible human reaction.”
― Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty First Century

“Unless a film of flesh envelops us, we die. Man exists only insofar as he is separated from his surroundings. The cranium is a space-traveler's helmet. Stay inside or you perish. Death is divestment, death is communion.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin

“All cat stories start with this statement: "My mother, who was the first cat, told me this...”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle