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“It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.”
― George Orwell, Burmese Days

“Envy is a horrible thing. It is unlike all other kinds of suffering in that there is no disguising it, no elevating it into tragedy. It is more than merely painful, it is disgusting.”
― George Orwell, Burmese Days

“it is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it.”
― George Orwell , Burmese Days

“To talk, simply to talk! It sounds so little, and how much it is! When you have existed to the brink of middle age in bitter loneliness, among people to whom your true opinion on every subject on earth is blasphemy, the need to talk is the greatest of all needs.”
― George Orwell, Burmese Days

“...it is perhaps one's own fault, to see oneself drifting, rotting, in dishonour and horrible futility, and all the while knowing that somewhere within one there is the possibility of a decent human being.”
― George Orwell, Burmese Days

“But when fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays awhile like an old friend that you have missed. It settles in the way an old friend will settle into your favorite chair and take out his pipe and light it and then fill the afternoon with stories of places he has been and things he has done since last he saw you.”
― Stephen King, ’Salem’s Lot

“The basis of all human fears, he thought. A closed door, slightly ajar.”
― Stephen King, 'Salem's Lot

“Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.”
― Stephen King, ’Salem’s Lot

“Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.”
― Stephen King

“A pissant is somebody who thinks he’s so damn smart, he can never keep his mouth shut. No matter what anybody says, he’s got to argue with it. You say you like something, and, by God, he’ll tell you why you’re wrong to like it. A pissant does his best to make you feel like a boob all the time. No matter what you say, he knows better.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“His response was to fight it with the only weapons at hand—passive resistance and open displays of contempt.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan

“तुच्छ है राज्य क्या है केशव?
पाता क्या नर कर प्राप्त विभव?
चिंता प्रभूत, अत्यल्प हास,
कुछ चाकचिक्य, कुछ क्षण विलास |

पर वह भी यहीं गँवाना है,
कुछ साथ नहीं ले जाना है |


'मुझसे मनुष्य जो होते हैं,
कंचन का भार न ढोते हैं,
पाते हैं धन बिखराने को,
लाते हैं रतन लुटाने को |

जग से न कभी कुछ लेते हैं,
दान ही हृदय का देते हैं |


'प्रासादों के कनकाभ शिखर,
होते कबूतरों के ही घर,
महलों में गरुड़ ना होता है,
कंचन पर कभी न सोता है |

बसता वह कहीं पहाड़ों में,
शैलों की फटी दरारों में |


'होकर समृद्धि-सुख के अधीन,
मानव होता नित तप: क्षीण,
सत्ता, किरीट, मणिमय आसन,
करते मनुष्य का तेज-हरण.

नर विभव हेतु लालचाता है,
पर वही मनुज को खाता है |


'चाँदनी, पुष्प-छाया में पल,
नर भले बने सुमधुर, कोमल,
पर अमृत क्लेश का पिये बिना,
आतप अंधड़ में जिये बिना,

वह पुरुष नहीं कहला सकता,
विघ्नों को नहीं हिला सकता |


'उड़ते जो झंझावतों में,
पीते जो वारि प्रपातों में,
सारा आकाश अयन जिनका,
विषधर भुजंग भोजन जिनका,

वे ही फणिबंध छुड़ाते हैं,
धरती का हृदय जुड़ाते हैं |


'मैं गरुड़ कृष्ण ! मैं पक्षिराज,
सिर पर ना चाहिए मुझे ताज |
दुर्योधन पर है विपद घोर,
सकता न किसी विधि उसे छोड़,

रण-खेत पाटना है मुझको,
अहिपाश काटना है मुझको”
― Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar', रश्मिरथी