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“I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. An unattractive man. I think that my liver hurts.”

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A renowned Russian novelist and a pioneer of psychological novels. His works deeply reveal the complexity of human nature and the injustice of society, having a profound impact on literature worldwide. more

“I’ve always been a word guy, I like weird words and I like American slang and all that and words that are no longer being used… I like to drag them out of the box and wave them around… this is an interesting one, it’s amazing how in addition to punctuation just a little pause in the wrong place can just completely transform the meaning of something.”

Littles Used Guy Interesting Wave Boxes Drag Pauses Punctuation Slang Guy I Like

Author:Tom Waits

“Does is make the dragon happy?" Matt asked. "Does is make the dragon happy?" echoed Tam Lin. "Why, I never thought of that. I suppose it does. What other pleasure can a creature have whose life consists of making everyone else miserable?”

Doe Pleasure Creatures Miserable Dragons

Book:The House of the Scorpion

Source: The House of the Scorpion

“Looking back, I realize that this period of my life has irrevocably come to a close; my happy-go-lucky, carefree schooldays are gone forever. I don't even miss them. I've outgrown them. I can no longer just kid around, since my serious side is always there.”

I Can Kids Sides Realizing Gone Forever Missing Serious Periods Lucky Looking Back Carefree Just Kids Happy Go Lucky

Book:The diary of a young girl

Source: The diary of a young girl

“Once again St. Nicholas Day Has even come to our hideaway; It won't be quite as fun, I fear, As the happy day we had last year. Then we were hopeful, no reason to doubt That optimism would win the bout, And by the time this year came round, We'd all be free, and safe and sound. Still, let's not forget it's St. Nicholas Day, Though we've nothing left to give away. We'll have to find something else to do: So everyone please look in their shoe!”

Source: The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition

“There is no such thing as originality. It has all been said before, suffered before. If a person knows that, is it any wonder love becomes mechanical and death just a scene to be shunned? There is no absolute knowledge to be gained from either. Just another ride on the merry-go-round, another blurred scene of faces smiling and faces grieved.”

Ifs Knows Persons Said Faces Wonder Scene Absolutes Rounds Originality Merry Merry Go Round Wonder Love

Author:Clive Barker

“Coming down off the trail, I am lost in my own thoughts and unprepared when a bear chugs across the path just before it gives out on the gravel road. I am so distracted that I keep walking towards the bear. I only stop when it rears, stands on hind legs, and stares at me, sensitive nose pressed into the air, weak eyes searching. I have never been this close to a wild bear before, but I am not frightened. There is no menace in its stance; it is not even curious. The bear seems to know who or what I am. The bear is not impressed.”

Knows Giving Seems Eye Lost My Own Path Air Bears Walking Weak Legs Curious Noses Staring Sensitive Frightened Impressed Trails Distracted Menace Stance Unprepared Gravel Not Impressed

Author:Louise Erdrich

“But when, at the end of my sophomore year, I became a philosophy major and started doing my first seriously pretentious thinking, I became a vegetarian again. The kind of willful forgetting that I was sure meat eating required felt too paradoxical to the intellectual life I was trying to shape. I thought life could, should, and must conform to the mold of reason. You can imagine how annoying this made me.”

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