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“That's how it is on this bitch of an earth.”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“My witness is the empty sky.

My reward is the perfect blue sky at dawn in the desert in a bird-resounding riverbottom grove.”
― Jack Kerouac, Some of the Dharma

“So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take a pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information.”
― George Orwell, Why I Write

“Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

“Oh Jake," Brett said, "We could have had such a damned good time together."
Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, pressing Brett against me.
Yes," I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so?”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake without enthusiasm, and dies for what he does not believe in, is a purely literary product. He was invented by Turgenev, and completed by Dostoevsky. Robespierre came out of the pages of Rousseau as surely as the People's Palace rose out debris of a novel. Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose.”
― Oscar Wilde

“All language is but a poor translation.”
― Franz Kafka

“But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.”
― William Shakespeare, Othello

“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.”
― audre lorde

“What cannot be said will be wept.”
― Sappho

“Cause there's nothing, there's nothing you can teach me
That I can't learn from Mr. Hathaway.”
― Amy Winehouse

“There is no point in saying anything but the truth because, at the end of the day, you don't have to answer to anyone but yourself.”
― Amy Winehouse

“That was our mistake, I think. One of many mistakes. To believe that boys were acting with a logic that we could someday understand. To believe that their actions had any meaning beyond thoughtless impulse. We were like conspiracy theorists, seeing portent and intention in every detail, wishing desperately that we mattered enough to be the object of planning and speculation. But they were just boys. Silly and young and straightforward; they weren't hiding anything.”
― Emma Cline, The Girls

“I waited to be told what was good about me. [...] All that time I had spent readying myself, the articles that taught me life was really just a waiting room until someone noticed you- the boys had spent that time becoming themselves.”
― Emma Cline, The Girls

“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
― Franz Kafka

“You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.”
― Franz Kafka

“I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.”
― Franz Kafka

“There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.”
― Franz Kafka

“I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life.”
― George Orwell, Why I Write

“[T]he more one is conscious of one's political bias, the more chance one has of acting politically without sacrificing one's aesthetic and intellectual integrity.”
― George Orwell, Why I Write

“England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly.”
― George Orwell, Why I Write

“He knew you can't really be strong until you can see a funny side of things.”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

“There’s no doubt in my mind that McMurphy’s won, but I’m not sure what.”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“And what’s he then that says I play the villain?”
― William Shakespeare, Othello

“The rest, is silence.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Remember me.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet