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Stephen Chbosky
“Do you think if people knew how crazy you really were, no one would ever talk to you?”
Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

William S. Burroughs
“Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.”
William S. Burroughs, Letters to Allen Ginsberg 1953-1957

Patrick Rothfuss
“There is a great difference between being fearless and being brave.”
Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

Paula Hawkins
“it’s as if people can see the damage written all over me, can see it in my face, the way I hold myself, the way I move.”
Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

J.R.R. Tolkien
“I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?”
J.R.R. Tolkien

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