Tom

“Maybe I can quit drinking one of these days. They all say that, don't they?"
"It takes about three years."
"Three years?" He looked shocked. "Usually it does. It's a different world. You have to get used to a paler set of colors, a quieter lot of sounds. You have to allow for relapses. All the people you used to know well will get to be just a little strange. You won't even like most of them, and they won't like you too well.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

“clxxxiii Do not hold your Views too firmly. Every fool is fully convinced, and every one fully persuaded is a fool: the more erroneous his judgment the more firmly he holds it.”
― Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom

“There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.”
― Raymond Chandler, Long Goodbye

“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women