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“She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald, The Collected Writings

“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”
― Émile Zola

“The truly free man is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.”
― Jules Renard, The Journal of Jules Renard

“Our goal isn't outrageous. We simply want to live in dignity on our own land, see a just solution for the refugees, and closure to 55 years of injustice and denial of our own existence.”
― Hanan Ashrawi

“An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues. Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex being a great example. Oedipus is drawn into tragedy not because of laziness or stupidity, but because of his courage and honesty. So an inevitable irony results.
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[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“The thing is to be happy,” he said. “No matter what. Just try that. You can. It gets to be easier and easier. It’s nothing to do with circumstances. You wouldn’t believe how good it is. Accept everything and then tragedy disappears.”
― Alice Munro, Dear Life

“The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.”
― Isabel Allende, City of the Beasts

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“One of the great challenges in healthcare technology is that medicine is at once an enormous business and an exquisitely human endeavor; it requires the ruthless efficiency of the modern manufacturing plant and the gentle hand-holding of the parish priest; it is about science, but also about art; it is eminently quantifiable and yet stubbornly not.”
― Robert Wachter, The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age

“نه با کسی بحث کن، نه از کسی انتقاد کن.
هرکی هرچی گفت بگو حق با شماست و خودت را خلاص کن.
آدم‌ها عقیده‌ات را که می‌پرسند نظرت را نمی‌خواهند.
می‌خواهند با عقیده‌ی خودشان موافقت کنی.
بحث کردن با آدمها بی‌فایده است.”
― زویا پیرزاد, چراغ‌ها را من خاموش می‌کنم

“If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.”
― Katharine Hepburn

“Reader's Bill of Rights

1. The right to not read

2. The right to skip pages

3. The right to not finish

4. The right to reread

5. The right to read anything

6. The right to escapism

7. The right to read anywhere

8. The right to browse

9. The right to read out loud

10. The right to not defend your tastes”
― Daniel Pennac

“After you died I could not hold a funeral,
And so my life became a funeral.”
― Han Kang, Human Acts