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“No good deed goes unpunished.”
― Oscar Wilde

“We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.”
― Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Maybe one reason so many people have so many problems is that there are so many other people with so many solutions." (Love on a Gunboat")”
― Malcolm Bradbury, The After Dinner Game: Three Plays for Television

“Я молюсь своим богам и не восстаю на чужих. (I pray to my gods but don’t rise against the gods of others.)”
― Maria Semenova (Мария Семенова)

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929

“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”
― Aldous Huxley, Collected Essays

“More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.”
― Truman Capote, Answered Prayers

“I can resist anything except temptation.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“Everything was such a damned nice idea when it was an idea.”
― Tim O'Brien, Northern Lights

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

“Friendship is an Algebra test that nobody passes.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“Never pray for justice, because you might get some.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye

“... life is to be used, not just held in the hand like a box of bonbons that nobody eats.”
― John Dos Passos, Three Soldiers

“you're never more alive than when you're almost dead.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

“There is no such thing as liberty,The greatest liberators are usually slaves of an idea. The freest people are slaves to convention and public opinion, and more still, slaves to the industrial machine. There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.”
― D.H. Lawrence

“How on earth did it come about that all the things denounced in the Gospels are violently defended by the Christian sects? But we must grow out of religion. It is either bugaboo, formalism, or hysteria. Besides, what proof is there that "the churches" know more about "God" than the Cockney sentry on duty outside the camp? We have only their say-so." ("Sacrifice Post", Lt. Davison)”
― Richard Aldington

“All nations teach their children to be "patriotic", and abuse the other nations for fostering nationalism." ("Sacrifice Post")”
― Richard Aldington

“Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.”
― Tim O'Brien

“What's thought cannot be unthought.”
― L. M. Boston

“We all possess, like it or not, the people we know, and are possessed by them in turn.”
― William Boyd, On the Yankee Station: Stories

“The truth is that there are no good men, or bad men,' he said. 'It is the deeds that have goodness or badness in them. There are good deeds, and bad deeds. Men are just men - it is what they do, or refuse to do, that links them to good and evil. The truth is that an instant of real love, in the heart of anyone - the noblest man alive or the most wicked - has the whole purpose and process and meaning of life within the lotus-folds of its passion. The truth is that we are all, every one of us, every atom, every galaxy, and every particle of matter in the universe, moving toward God.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.”
― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

“Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself. ...Science fiction is central to everything we've ever done, and people who make fun of science fiction writers don't know what they're talking about.”
― Ray Bradbury

“Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.”
― Ray Bradbury

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

“Innocence is no excuse in the eyes of the Law.”
― Leon Garfield, Smith

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“Свежесть бывает только одна - первая, она же и последная.”
― Bulgakov M.A., Мастер и Маргарита. Белая гвардия

“Seems to me we work out our destinies subject to a lot of accident, incident, and whim.”
― Louis L'Amour, Hanging Woman Creek