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“I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it at full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be.”
― Roald Dahl, My Uncle Oswald

“De naïeveling geloofde dat fruitautomaten door altruïsten ontworpen werden”
― Dimitri Verhulst, De helaasheid der dingen

“I took her beauty personally.”
― Emma Cline, The Girls

“A wise man once told me that mystery is the most essential ingredient of life, for the following reason: mystery creates wonder, which leads to curiosity, which in turn provides the ground for our desire to understand who and what we truly are.”
― Mark Frost, The Secret History of Twin Peaks

“Sometimes an owl is just an owl.”
― Mark Frost, The Secret History of Twin Peaks

“Choose a life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television. Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers... Choose DSY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit crushing game shows, stucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away in the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourself, choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that?”
― Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting

“Now there is apparently a causal link between heroin addiction and vegetarianism.”
― Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting

“You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom.
We lived in the gaps between the stories.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
― Stephen Fry

“You are who you are when nobody's watching.”
― Stephen Fry

“An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.”
― Stephen Fry

“Look at this, Willem, he admits he doesn’t know the law and at the same time insists he’s innocent.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

“How are we to avoid those in office becoming deeply corrupt when everything is devoid of meaning?”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

“It's characteristic of this judicial system that a man is condemned not only when he's innocent but also in ignorance.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

“Whatever he may seem to us, he is yet a servant of the Law; that is, he belongs to the Law and as such is set beyond human judgment.”
― Franz Kafka , The Trial