Mose Duffer

“Morality is similar to religion - it is a somniferous drug which blinds people from seeing the squalor of their lives.”
― Irving Stone, Lust for Life

“It's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it?”
― L.M. Montgomery

“But only when it was too late did they realize the price they must pay for escaping their destiny. Every Happy Ever After was tainted. Fate, at first so amenable, so reasonable, so open to negotiation, ends up by exacting a cruel revenge for happiness.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

“Am I a genius? I don't think so. Not yet anyway. As Burt would put it, mocking the euphemisms of educational jargon, I'm exceptional-a democratic term used to avoid the damning labels of gifted and deprived (which used to mean bright and retarded) and as soon as exceptional begins to mean anything to anyone they'll change it. The idea seems to be: use an expression only as long as it doesn't mean anything to anybody. Exceptional refers to both ends of the spectrum, so all my life I've been exceptional.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon