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#1

“She felt, as she felt so often with Murphy, spattered with words that went dead as soon as they sounded; each word obliterated, before it had time to make sense, by the word that came next; so that in the end she did not know what had been said. It was like difficult music heard for the first time.”
― Samuel Beckett, Murphy

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#2

“I use the words you taught me. If they don't mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.”
― Samuel Beckett, Endgame

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#3

“Pass the damn ham, please.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

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#4

“HOBBES:
If you don't get a goodnight kiss you get Kafka dreams.”
― Bill Watterson

tags: life

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#5

“What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.”
― Edith Wharton

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#6

“There is someone I must say goodbye to. Oh, not you - we are sure to see each other again - but the Lily Bart you knew. I have kept her with me all this time, but now we are going to part, and I have brought her back to you - I am going to leave her here. When I go out presently she will not go with me. I shall like to think that she has stayed with you.”
― Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth

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#7

“In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs.”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

tags: etiquette

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#9

“You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

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#10

“Trifles make the sum of life. ”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

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#11

“[S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.”
― Charles Dickens , Martin Chuzzlewit

tags: calculation, expression, eyes, hypocrisy

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#12

“I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.”
― Charles Dickens (David Copperfield), David Copperfield

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#13

“I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born, in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality, and against the dissuadinig arguments of my best friends.”
― Charles Dickens

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#14

“When they took a young man into Tellson's London house, they hid him somewhere till he was old. They kept him in a dark place, like a cheese, until he had the full Tellson flavour and blue-mould upon him. Then only was he permitted to be seen, spectacularly poring over large books, and casting his breeches and gaiters into the general weight of the establishment.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

tags: banks, clerks

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#15

“In the Desert

In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.
I said, “Is it good, friend?”
“It is bitter—bitter,” he answered;

“But I like it
“Because it is bitter,
“And because it is my heart.”
― Stephen Crane, The Black Riders and Other Lines

tags: bitterness, heart, poetry

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#16

“She read Dickens in the same spirit she would have eloped with him.”
― Eudora Welty, One Writer's Beginnings

tags: being-carried-away, charles-dickens, elopement, entrancement, reading

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#17

“Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower

tags: dislike, hatred, time, waste

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#18

“If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.”
― Stanley Kubrick

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#19

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

tags: life, philosophy, philosophy-of-life, progress

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#20

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
― Robert Frost

tags: education

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#21

“I won't eat any cereal that doesn't turn the milk purple.”
― Bill Watterson, The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury

tags: humor-food

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#22

“Presume not that I am the thing I was;
For God doth know, so shall the world perceive,
That I have turn'd away my former self;
So will I those that kept me company.”
― William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part Two

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#23

“In eternity there is no time, only an instant long enough for a joke.”
― Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

tags: discordian, discordianism, eternity, humor, joke

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#24

“may came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.”
― E.E. Cummings

tags: loneliness, poetry, travel

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#25

“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

tags: science

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#26

“Touch has a memory.”
― John Keats

tags: memory, touch

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#27

“[Cannery Row's] inhabitants are, as the man once said, 'whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons of bitches,' by which he meant everybody. Had the man looked through another peephole he might have said, 'saints and angels and martyrs and holy men,' and he would have meant the same thing.”
― John Steinbeck, Cannery Row

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#28

“Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.”
― George Bernard Shaw, The Doctor's Dilemma

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#29

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: hmmm

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#30

“Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: humour, men, slavery, slaves

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#31

“The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.”
― Voltaire

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