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“The courage to live when the best days were past.”
― James Salter, Light Years

“Of all the weapons we turn upon ourselves, guilt is the sharpest, Silverfox. It can carve one's own past into unrecognizable shapes, false memories leading to beliefs that sow all kinds of obsessions.”
― Steven Erikson, Memories of Ice

“In a way it is even humiliating to watch coal-miners working. It raises in you a momentary doubt about your own status as an ‘intellectual’ and a superior person generally. For it is brought home to you, at least while you are watching, that it is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior. You and I and the editor of the Times Lit. Supp., and the Nancy poets and the Archbishop of Canterbury and Comrade X, author of Marxism for Infants – all of us really owe the comparative decency of our lives to poor drudges underground, blackened to the eyes, with their throats full of coal dust, driving their shovels forward with arms and belly muscles of steel.”
― George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

“It is not enough to read for entertainment—we also must read to learn. This life, and that of our journey in the book, is but a microcosm of our true one. It also beseeches the writer as he reminds himself that there must be a purpose. To entertain mindlessly is to rob the reader, the watcher, the listener. Such complicity in shallowness is as harmful as wilful violence. In consciousness there is profound obligation.”
― Mike Woods, Sleight of Hand: Chaos, Authorship & Humanity in the Malazan Book of the Fallen