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George Eliot
“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong.”
George Eliot, Middlemarch

George Eliot
“We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others.”
George Eliot, Middlemarch

George Eliot
“Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.”
George Eliot, Middlemarch

Flannery O'Connor
“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.”
Flannery O'Connor, Flannery O'Connor: Collected Works

Donna Tartt
“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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