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“Error can point the way to truth, while empty-headedness can only lead to more empty-headedness or to a career in politics.”
― Barry Hughart, Bridge of Birds

“The emotional health of a village depended upon having a man whom everyone loved to hate, and Heaven had blessed us with two of them.”
― Barry Hughart, Bridge of Birds

“Blessed are the idiots, for they are happiest people on earth.”
― Barry Hughart, Bridge of Birds

“Women were brought up to believe that men were the answer. They weren't. They weren't even one of the questions. ”
― Julian Barnes, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters

“A friend is someone who helps you hide the body—that”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen

“People truly engaged in life have messy houses.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen

“Anything covered is always interesting. There is never nothing beneath something that is covered.”
― Deborah Levy, Hot Milk: Now a major motion picture starring Emma Mackey and Fiona Shaw

“Time has shattered, it’s cracking like my lips.”
― Deborah Levy, Hot Milk

“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“They spend all their lives waiting for their lives to begin. Miranda”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“Pessimism is too easy, even delicious, the badge and plume of intellectuals everywhere. It absolves the thinking classes of solutions.”
― Ian McEwan, Nutshell

“Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves, Confucius said. Revenge unstitches a civilisation.”
― Ian McEwan, Nutshell

“Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time.”
― Julian Barnes, The Noise of Time

“We were, to quote the proverb, ‘The one dog who barks at nothing answered by a thousand dogs barking at something …’ ” During”
― David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet