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“You want to play house, you got to have a job. You want to play very nice house, very sweet house, then you got to have a job you don't like. Great. This is the way ninety-eight-point-nine per cent of the people work things out, so believe me, buddy, you've got nothing to apologize for.”
― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

“La vie me sied mal; le mort m'ira peut-être mieux.”
― François-René de Chateaubriand, Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe

“To love and win is the best thing.
To love and lose, the next best.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray

“What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.”
― Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook