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“How wrong Emily Dickinson was! Hope is not "the thing with feathers." The thing with feathers has turned out to be my nephew. I must take him to a specialist in Zurich.”
― Woody Allen, Without Feathers

“What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment?”
― Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

“What is the point of roaming the world when it's the same misery everywhere?”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

“O God, make me good, but not yet.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“And often enough, when we think we are protecting ourselves, we are struggling against our rescuer.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

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

“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

“My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.”
― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

“Only the shallow know themselves”
― oscar wilde

“I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“As it has been said:
Love and a cough
cannot be concealed.
Even a small cough.
Even a small love.”
― Anne Sexton

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

“This is not a letter but my arms about you for a brief moment.”
― Katherine Mansfield

“Or to look at it from the other end of the telescope: Who in your life, do you remember most fondly, with the most feelings of warmth?

Those who were kindest to you, I bet.

It's a little facile, maybe, and certainly hard to implement, but I'd say, as a goal in life, you could do worse than: Try to be kinder.”
― George Saunders, Congratulations, by the Way: Some Thoughts on Kindness

“Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment