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“Dying in vain isn't really all that bad since nearly everyone does it. It's the living in vain you really have to watch out for.”
― Ross Thomas, Briarpatch

“I think she must have lived where all the sad poets live, in that secret place where everything hurts all the time.”
― Ross Thomas

“It's always been hard for me to tell the difference between denial and what used to be known as hope.”
― Michael Chabon, Wonder Boys

“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’

’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’

’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.”
― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass