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“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

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

“Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.”
― James Joyce

“Don't think about what you've left behind" The alchemist said to the boy as they began to ride across the sands of the desert. "If what one finds is made of pure matter, it will never spoil. And one can always come back. If what you had found was only a moment of light, like the explosion of a star, you would find nothing on your return.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better."
-- The Alchemist”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, "Oh, the book is better.”
― Paulo Coelho

“In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.”
― Warren Buffet

“Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.”
― Samuel Beckett, Krapp's Last Tape & Embers

“Memories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are dear to you, or rather you must think of them, for if you don’t there is the danger of finding them, in your mind, little by little.”
― Samuel Beckett

“Words are all we have.”
― Samuel Beckett

“Use your head, can't you, use your head, you're on earth, there's no cure for that!”
― Samuel Beckett, Endgame

“Yes, light, there is no other word for it.”
― Samuel Beckett

“I cannot explain my plays. Each must find out for himself what is meant”
― Samuel Beckett

“That he could not enkindle in the heart of the child what was ashes in his own.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“If I'm not here you can still talk to me. You can talk to me and I'll talk to you. You'll see.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“Say the whole point of love is to try to get your fingers through the holes in the lover's mask. To get some kind of hold on the mask, and who cares how you do it.”
― David Foster Wallace

“Hang me upside-down and fuck me in both ears. You pulled yourself out of a clinical depression by being a freaking hero.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“She wanted only tall smooth bottles whose labels spoke of Proof.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“It is named the "Web" for good reason.”
― David Foster Wallace

“We are not dead but asleep, dreaming of ourselves.”
― David Foster Wallace, The Pale King

“For those who've never experienced a sunrise in the rural midwest, it's roughly as soft and romantic as someone's abruptly hitting the lights in a dark room.”
― David Foster Wallace, The Pale King

“Is it possible really to love other people? If I’m lonely and in pain, everyone outside me is potential relief—I need them. But can you really love what you need so badly? Isn’t a big part of love caring more about what the other person needs? How am I supposed to subordinate my own overwhelming need to somebody else’s needs that I can’t even feel directly? And yet if I can’t do this, I’m damned to loneliness, which I definitely don’t want … so I’m back at trying to overcome my selfishness for self-interested reasons.”
― David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

“The man who knows his limitations, has none.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“I think it's easy to stop smoking; it's just hard not to commit a felony after you stop.”
― David Foster Wallace

“I'm just afraid of having a tombstone that says HERE LIES A PROMISING OLD MAN.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“Please learn the pragmatics of expressing fear: sometimes words that seem to express really invoke.
This can be tricky.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“His eyes were holes in the world.”
― David Foster Wallace, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

“That other people can often see things about you that you yourself cannot see, even if those people are stupid.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“Habit 1: Be Proactive
Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind
Habit 3: Put First Things First
Habit 4: Think Win/Win
Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood
Habit 6: Synergize
Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw”
― Stephen Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change