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“Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”
― Winston Churchill

“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”
― Rumi, Masnavi i Man'avi, the spiritual couplets of Maula

“That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.”
― Doris Lessing

“I borrowed a quote from Oscar Wilde and put it at the top of the menu: “To get into the best society nowadays one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people—that is all.”
― Marco Pierre White, The Devil in the Kitchen: Sex, Pain, Madness, and the Making of a Great Chef

“Be a duck, remain calm on the surface and paddle like hell underneath.”
― Michael Caine

“In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king”
― Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker

“Same rules apply.”
― Irvine Welsh, Filth

“If you don’t practice you don’t deserve to win.”
― Andre Agassi

“How lovely it is to dream while you are awake.”
― Andre Agassi, Open

“As long as you are going to be thinking anyway, think big.”
― Donald Trump

“Just kidding' was exactly what people wrote when they meant every word.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today; and I'll always remember it”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“To have a style is to be stuck.”
― Jonah Lehrer from Milton Glaser, Proust Was a Neuroscientist

“And so we keep on thinking, because the next thought might be the answer.”
― Jonah Lehrer, Imagine: How Creativity Works

“Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.”
― Jo Nesbo

“Harry looked at Bellman. He could not help but admire him. The way you admire a cockroach you flush down the toilet and it comes creeping back again and again and in the end it inherits the world.”
― Jo Nesbo

“Everything you do leaves traces, doesn’t it. The life you’ve lived is written all over you, for those who can read.”
― Jo Nesbø, Flaggermusmannen

“I´ve read that it´s the smell some carnivores use to find their prey. Imagine the trembling victim trying to hide, but knowing that the smell of its own fear will kill it.”
― Jo Nesbø, The Snowman

“Jon Snow, is this a proper castle now? Not just a tower?”

“It is.” Jon took her hand.

“Good,” she whispered. “I wanted t’ see one proper castle, before … before I …”

“You’ll see hundred castles. The battle’s done. Maester Aemon will see to you. You’re kissed by fire, remember? Lucky. It will take more than an arrow to kill you. Aemon will draw it out and patch you up, and we’ll get milk of the poppy for the pain.”

She just smiled at that. “D’you remember that cave? We should have stayed in that cave. I told you so.”

“We’ll go back to the cave,” he said.” You’re not going to die, Ygritte. You’re not.”

“Oh.” Ygritte cupped his cheek with her hand. “You know nothing, Jon Snow,” she sighed, dying.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day.”
― Virginia Woolf, Night and Day