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“A man needs enough...no less, no more. ”
― Marina Lewycka, Two Caravans

“In my country we say that ignorance is the warm bath in which it is comfortable to sit but dangerous to lie down.”
― Marina Lewycka, We Are All Made of Glue

“To live is to war with trolls.”
― Henrik Ibsen

“I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.”
― Henrik Ibsen

“You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.”
― Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

“HELMER: But this is disgraceful. Is this the way you neglect your most sacred duties?

NORA: What do you consider is my most sacred duty?

HELMER: Do I have to tell you that? Isn't it your duty to your husband and children?

NORA: I have another duty, just as sacred.

HELMER: You can't have. What duty do you mean?

NORA: My duty to myself.”
― Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

“Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Lying on the Couch

“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises