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“You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road.”
― Richard Price

“History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”
― Mark Twain

“The purpose of life is not to do what we want but what needs to be done.”
― Christopher Paolini, Brisingr

“Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
― C.S. Lewis

“A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.”
― Mark Twain

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain

“I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”
― Mark Twain

“When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.”
― Voltaire

“There's one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he's crooked.”
― Mark Twain

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
― Stephen King

“She walks lightly, old man. She walks lightly upon the earth.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.”
― Mark Twain

“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
― Jack London

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
― Oliver Goldsmith, The Citizen of the World, Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the Country, by Dr. Goldsmith

“This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.”
― Neil Gaiman

“He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.”
― Confucius

“Thomas Edison's last words were "It's very beautiful over there". I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.”
― Confucius

“Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work...”
― Albert Einstein

“If what one has to say is not better than silence, then one should keep silent.”
― Confucius

“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eragon

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

“The heart of wisdom is tolerance.”
― Steven Erikson, Memories of Ice

“The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.”
― Mark Twain

“Common sense is not so common.”
― Voltaire, A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
― Robert Frost

“Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
― Mark Twain