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“If you couldn’t have a thing without hurting someone who didn’t deserve it, you shouldn’t have it.”
― K.J. Charles, Slippery Creatures

“See, when you mess something up, you learn for the next time. It's when people compliment you that you're in trouble. That means they expect you to keep it up.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“Only in academia did people talk such bullshit and expect to be taken seriously”
― Josh Lanyon, Fair Game

“Solving a problem for which you know there’s an answer is like climbing a mountain with a guide, along a trail someone else has laid. In mathematics, the truth is somewhere out there in a place no one knows, beyond all the beaten paths. And it’s not always at the top of the mountain. It might be in a crack on the smoothest cliff or somewhere deep in the valley.”
― Yoko Ogawa, The Housekeeper and the Professor