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“Be it known that, waiving all argument, I take the good old fashioned ground that the whale is a fish.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill!”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“War and courage have done more great things than charity. Not your sympathy, but your bravery has saved the unfortunate”
― Thomas Common, Thus Spake Zarathustra

“Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“We, the public, are easily, lethally offended. We have come to think of taking offence as a fundamental right. We value very little more highly than our rage, which gives us, in our opinion, the moral high ground. From this high ground we can shoot down at our enemies and inflict heavy fatalities. We take pride in our short fuses. Our anger elevates, transcends.”
― Salman Rushdie, East, West

“It is sometimes no less startling to meet the dog than the wolf”
― Victor Hugo

“...and he generally succeeded so well that he had reached the point of deluding himself, which is, by the way, easier than is supposed.”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“When you get an idea into your head you find it in everything.”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“When a man does wrong, he should do all the wrong he can; it is madness to stop half-way in crime!”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“How do I know you're one of the good guys?
You dont. You'll have to take a shot.
Are you carrying the fire?
Am I what?
Carrying the fire.
You're kind of weirded out, arent you?
No.
Just a little.
Yeah.
That's okay.
So are you?
What, carrying the fire?
Yes.
Yeah, We are.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“In seasons of pestilence, some of us will have a secret attraction to the disease--a terrible passing inclination to die of it.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“Of course married life is merely a habit, a bad habit. But then one regrets the loss even of one's worse habits.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray