Max

“Within a month he knew that his marriage was a failure; within a year he stopped hoping that it would improve.”
― John Williams, Stoner

“You can either buy clothes or buy pictures," she said. "It's that simple. No one who is not very rich can do both. Pay no attention to your clothes and no attention at all to the mode, and buy your clothes for comfort and durability, and you will have the clothes money to buy pictures.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

“What is believed in society is not always the equivalent of what is true; but as regards to a woman's reputation, it amounts to the same thing.”
― Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace

“There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia