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“There was no question of forgiving them. She had not, in any case, a forgiving nature; and the injury they had done her was not done by them. If she were to start forgiving she must needs forgive Society, the Law, the Church, the History of Europe, the Old Testament, great-great-aunt Salome and her prayer-book, the Bank of England, Prostitution, the Architect of Apsley Terrace, and half a dozen other useful props of civilization.”
― Sylvia Townsend Warner, Lolly Willowes

“Well here comes Christmas! That astonishing thing that no 'commercialism' can defile — unless we let it.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, Letters from Father Christmas

“Don't confuse drama with living.”
― Laura Wood

“If definitive proof emerges that we’re living in a simulation, the correct response to that news will be So what. A life lived in a simulation is still a life.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility