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“I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.”
― Saki, The Unbearable Bassington

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
― E.E. Cummings

“I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis and Other Writings

“One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.”
― Oscar Wilde

“When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.”
― Salman Rushdie

“Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.”
― Salman Rushdie

“Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

“Reality continues to ruin my life.”
― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

“The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.”
― Mark Twain

“I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
― Mark Twain

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”
― Mark Twain

“A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.”
― Mark Twain

“History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”
― Mark Twain

“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”
― Mark Twain

“A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.”
― Mark Twain

“Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.”
― Mark Twain, Notebook

“I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I'm gone which would not have happened if I had not come.”
― Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

“She's no flibberti-gibberti mamzell, but a whir-stir-get-lost-sir bundla dynamite!”
― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

“somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond
any experience, your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near

your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully, mysteriously) her first rose

or if your wish be to close me, i and
my life will shut very beautifully, suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility: whose texture
compels me with the colour of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands”
― E.E. Cummings, Selected Poems

“If you want to be happy, be.”
― Leo Tolstory

“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead.”
― Bertrand Russell

“War does not determine who is right — only who is left.”
― Anonymous

“Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.”
― Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays

“No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.”
― Groucho Marx

“Paying alimony is like feeding hay to a dead horse.”
― Groucho Marx