Anna

“He said he was disappointed with the way his fellow-countrymen had reacted to the depression; he would have expected them to take their misfortune with more equanimity. Knowing that nothing is easier than to bear other people's calamities with fortitude, I thought that Elliot, richer now than he had ever been in his life, was perhaps hardly entitled to be severe.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

“It's a library, only the stupid or the evil are afraid of those”
― Iain Banks

“If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?”
― José Saramago, Blindness

“I just think people overvalue argument because they like to hear themselves talk.”
― Iain M. Banks, Use of Weapons