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“Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

“The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”
― 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

“A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.”
― Herman Melville

“More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.”
― Truman Capote, Answered Prayers

“Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.”
― Truman Capote

“If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price.”
― John Updike, Rabbit, Run

“ravished by dead words become obscene, and dead ideas become obsessions.”
― d.h. lawrence

“Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

“Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.”
― D.H. Lawrence

“For God's sake, all of you, say spiteful things about me, then I shall know I mean something to you. Don't say surgaries, or I'm done.”
― D.H. Lawrence

“Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover

“But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.”
― Stephen King

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
― Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked

“Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

“No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.”
― Mary Shelley