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“What happened in the virtual world, where beauty existed for the purpose of being hated and besmirched, was more compelling than what happened in the real world, where beauty seemed to have no purpose at all.”
― Jonathan Franzen, Purity

“Не можеш да опознаеш човек, като му бръкнеш в носа. Но ако някой на теб ти бръкне в носа, доста неща разбираш за него.”
― Miroslav Penkov, East of the West: A Country in Stories

“I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

“Мъжете бяха в различни форми и размери, но жените до една бяха слаби и на трийсет и шест; много от тях бяха едновременно слаби и бременни.”
― Anonymous

“Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all. We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain.”
― Frederic Bastiat, The Law

“When you’re still too young to shave, optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.”
― Stephen king, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Oh, don't cry, I'm so sorry I cheated so much, but that's the way things are.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Това си беше чисто прахосване на пари, но той се почувства по-добре.”
― Anonymous

“two people can sleep in the same bed and still be alone when they close their eyes”
― Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

“Popular? POPULAR?... Oh God, popularity is just the slutty little cousin of prestige”
― Anonymous

“We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain”
― Roberto Bolaño, Last Evenings on Earth

“He learned about life at sixteen, first from Dostoevsky and then from the whores of New Orleans.”
― Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America

“Beer is made by men, wine by God.”
― Martin Luther

“Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.”
― Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One

“But certain favourite roles are played by us so often before the public and rehearsed so carefully when we are alone that we find it easier to refer to their fictitious testimony than to that of a reality which we have almost entirely forgotten.”
― Marcel Proust, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

“Listen, old goat, today doesn't matter and tomorrow doesn't matter. It's the end of the game that counts and how many chips you've got in your pocket -- if you're still playing. ”
― Robert Capa

“To say goodbye is to die a little.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

“Don't talk to me about hatred if you haven't been married.”
― Jonathan Franzen, Purity

“Drink up, boys, drink up and don’t worry, if we finish this bottle we’ll go down and buy another one. Of course, it won’t be the same as the one we’ve got now, but it’ll still be better than nothing. Ah, what a shame they don’t make Los Suicidas mezcal anymore, what a shame that time pases, don’t you think? what a shame that we die, and get old, and everything good goes galloping away from us.”
― Roberto Bolaño, The Savage Detectives

“Stupidity mistook itself for intelligence, whereas intelligence knew its own stupidity.”
― Jonathan Franzen, Purity

“There’s the imperative to keep secrets, and the imperative to have them known. How do you know that you’re a person, distinct from other people? By keeping certain things to yourself.”
― Jonathan Franzen, Purity

“Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray

“I don't want to put the world to rights... I just don't like people who put the world to wrongs.”
― Lee Child, 61 Hours

“As soon as she hit the Send button, she had a spasm of remorse; her interval between action and remorse was diminishing so rapidly that soon she might be all remorse, unable to act at all; which might not be such a bad thing.”
― Jonathan Franzen, Purity

“Wasn’t asking for a recipe supposed to be good coin of the feminine realm?”
― Jonathan Franzen, Purity

“It’s like having one red sock in a load of white laundry. One red sock, and nothing is ever white again.”
― Jonathan Franzen, Purity

“What happens when people open their hearts?"
"They get better.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Bessie: 'Why don't you get married?'
Zooey: 'I like riding in trains too much. You never get to sit next to the window anymore when you're married.”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

“You can't exist in this world with such strong likes and dislikes.”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

“November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.”
― Emily Dickinson