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“The past is a pebble in my shoe.”
― Poe

“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
― Robert Bloch

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read...”
― Keri Hulme, The Bone People

“If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?”
― Abraham Lincoln

“I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skillful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

“Never tell all you know—not even to the person you know best.”
― Agatha Christie, The Secret Adversary

“If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.”
― Stephen King

“You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry”
― Abraham Lincoln

“You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“So I had this problem -- work or starve. So I thought I'd combine the two and decided to become a writer.”
― Robert Bloch

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Funny how we take it for granted that we know all there is to know about another person, just because we see them frequently or because of some strong emotional tie.”
― Robert Bloch, Psycho

“And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“I tend to scare myself.”
― Stephen King

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer, in my mind I am free.”
― Stephen Hawking, Sigan Ŭn Hangsang Mirae Ro Hŭrŭnŭnʼga: Hokʻing Paksa Ŭi Chaemi Innŭn Chʻoesin Ujuron

“If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn’t turn out very well for the Native Americans.”
― stephen hawking

“The idea of 10 dimensions might sound exciting, but they would cause real problems if you forget where you parked your car.”
― Stephen Hawking, The Grand Design

“Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
It matters that you don't just give up.”
― Stephen Hawking

“thus, in a sense, we are all doomed. even if we stay away from black holes”
― Stephen W. Hawking

“The universe doesn't allow perfection.”
― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

“Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.”
― Ovid

“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”
― Robert Frost

“I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“If you want to find out what a man is to the bottom, give him power. Any man can stand adversity — only a great man can stand prosperity. It is the glory of Abraham Lincoln that he never abused power only on the side of mercy”
― Robert Ingersoll