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“Whatever Fortune brings,
Don’t be afraid of doing things.”
― A.A. Milne, Now We Are Six

“A real dreamer must have a mutual trust with time.”
― Yiyun Li

“Everything you can imagine is real.”
― Pablo Picasso

“Hello, Rabbit,' he said, 'is that you?'
'Let's pretend it isn't,' said Rabbit, 'and see what happens.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“I think housework is far more tiring and frightening than hunting is, no comparison, and yet after hunting we had eggs for tea and were made to rest for hours, but after housework people expect one to go on just as if nothing special had happened.”
― Nancy Mitford

“If someone stands in your path to glory, crush him. If someone holds you back from achieving your goals, crush him. If someone peppers his speech with too many “ers” or “ums,” crush him.”
― Christopher Healy, The Hero's Guide to Storming the Castle

“We must defend ourselves according to our opponents' ability, not their intentions.”
― Koushun Takami, Battle Royale

“This was my first lesson about gambling: if you see somebody winning all the time, he isn't gambling, he's cheating. Later on in life, if I were continuously losing in any gambling situation, I would watch very closely.”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“I do not think I responded immediately, for it took me a moment or two to fully digest these words of Miss Kenton. Moreover, as you might appreciate, their implications were such as to provoke a certain degree of sorrow within me. Indeed- why should I not admit it? - at that moment, my heart was breaking.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

“There is a difference between being remembered and being caught by the mesh of one's mind.”
― Yiyun Li, Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life

“I never showed up in her dreams, I am certain, as people we keep in our memories rarely have a place for us in theirs.”
― Yiyun Li, Gold Boy, Emerald Girl

“But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defensless that I couldn't do it. It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
― Albert Einstein

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“The worst of being a Communist is the parties you may go to are - well - awfully funny and touching but not very gay...I don't see the point of sad parties, do you? And Left-wing people are always sad because they mind dreadfully about their causes, and the causes are always going so badly.”
― Nancy Mitford, The Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate

“[A] quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business."

(The Record Lie)”
― A.A. Milne, If I May

“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“The destiny of Earthseed is to take root among the stars.”
― Octavia E Butler

“It's your fault, Eeyore. You've never been to see any of us. You just stay here in this one corner of the Forest waiting for the others to come to you. Why don't you go to THEM sometimes?”
― A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Belief
Initiates and guides action—
Or it does nothing.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

“Onion City was gone, burned to ashes not by the chemical fire of the drones but by a power and heat inconceivably older.”
― jason steele, Somebody Keeps Wife Swapping My Wife

“Something moving toward us in the darkness. Huge, shambling, hairy, moist, it came toward us. We couldn’t even see it, but there was the ponderous impression of bulk, heaving itself toward us. Great weight was coming at us, out of the darkness, and it was more a sense of pressure, of air forcing itself into a limited space, expanding the invisible walls of a sphere. Benny began to whimper. Nimdok’s lower lip trembled and he bit it hard, trying to stop it. Ellen slid across the metal floor to Gorrister and huddled into him. There was the smell of matted, wet fur in the cavern. There was the smell of charred wood. There was the smell of dusty velvet. There was the smell of rotting orchids. There was the smell of sour milk. There was the smell of sulphur, of rancid butter, of oil slick, of grease, of chalk dust, of human scalps. AM was keying us. He was tickling us. There was the smell of — I heard myself shriek,”
― Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

“They studied the infinitesimal effects of spit on snow and history.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five

“Billy coughed when the door was opened, and when he coughed he shit thin gruel. This was in accordance with the Third Law of Motion according to Sir Isaac Newton. This law tells us that for every action there is a reaction and opposite in direction.

This can be useful in rocketry.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five