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“She hated the namelessness of women in stories, as if they lived and died so that men could have metaphysical insights.”
― Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding

“There’s so much standing around,’ Owen said when Henry asked him what he liked about the game. ‘And pockets in the uniforms.”
― Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding

“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“The problem, like most problems in life, probably had to do with his footwork.”
― Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding

“Consciously, sir, consciously," Yossarian corrected in an effort to help. "I hate them consciously.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“Hadn't the myth of the glory of homeownership been debunked once and for all? Did he really want to trade his free time - and a formidable chunk of his savings - for a big white symbol of bourgeois propriety?”
― Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding

“For you, a thousand times over”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“...[A]nything worth dying for ... is certainly worth living for.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“To destroy abuses is not enough; habits must be changed.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“Succeed; that is the advice that falls, drop by drop, from the overhanging fruit of corruption.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“In vain we chisel, as best we can, the mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny reappears continuously.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“First problem. To produce wealth. Second problem. To distribute it.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, that is the miracle of genius.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure. To replace thought by reverie is to confound poison with nourishment.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“The modern spirit is the genius of Greece with the genius of India for its vehicle; Alexander upon the elephant.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Not being heard is no reason for silence.”
― Hugo, Victor, Les Misérables

“The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“It's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

“As you are now so once were we.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“Believing takes practice.”
― Barbara Kingsolver

“But it was an unrefrigerated world. And everything ended badly.”
― Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance

“Birth and death - what could be more monstrous than that? We like to deceive ourselves and call it wondrous and beautiful and majestic, but it's freakish, let's face it.”
― Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance