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“We men of study, whose heads are in our books, have need to be straightly looked after! We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.”

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist known for his Gothic novels and romantic works. His writings often delve into themes of morality and sin, influenced by his family history and Puritan background. more

“In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving. Nature does not often say 'See!' to her poor creature at a time when seeing can lead to happy doing; or reply 'Here!' to a body's cry of 'Where?' till the hide-and-seek has become an irksome outworn game.”

Men Wells Doe Body Games Hours Poor Plans Seeing Cry Produce Creatures Ill Judged Execution Hide And Seek Loving Nature

Book:Tess of the D'urbervilles

Source: Tess of the D'urbervilles

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.”

Thinking Writing Kind Book Ought Wounds Reading Books Writers Reading

Book:The Basic Kafka

Source: The Basic Kafka

“Tobacco is my favorite vegetable.”

My Favorite Vegetables Tobacco

Author:Frank Zappa

“April is the cruelest month, T.S. Eliot wrote, by which I think he meant (among other things) that springtime makes people crazy. We expect too much, the world burgeons with promises it can't keep, all passion is really a setup, and we're doomed to get our hearts broken yet again. I agree, and would further add: Who cares? Every spring I go out there anyway, around the bend, unconditionally. ... Come the end of the dark days, I am more than joyful. I'm nuts.”

Source: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating

“While the intelligence profession oftentimes demands secrecy, it is critically important that there be a full and open discourse on intelligence matters with the appropriate elected representatives of the American people.”

People Important Matter Demand Profession Appropriate Representatives Discourse Secrecy

Author:John O. Brennan

“From childhood I had never believed in permanence, and yet I had longed for it. Always I was afraid of losing happiness. This month, next year...death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again forever.”

World Years Values Next Loses Forever Childhood Months Losing Absolutes Next Year Permanence

Author:Graham Greene

“I envied those who could believe in a God and I distrusted them. I felt they were keeping their courage up with a fable of the changeless and the permanent. Death was far more certain than God, and with death there would be no longer the possibility of love dying.”

Love Believe Would Be Age Certain Felt Dying Possibility Permanent Fables Envied

Book:The Collected Edition: The quiet American

Source: The Collected Edition: The quiet American

“I could never have been a pacifist. To kill a man was surely to grant him an immeasurable benefit. Oh yes, people always, everywhere, loved their enemies. It was their friends they preserved for pain and vacuity.”

People Men Has Beens Pain Enemy Benefits Grants Pacifist Vacuity

Book:The Collected Edition: The quiet American

Source: The Collected Edition: The quiet American

“The moral duty of the free writer is to begin his work at home: to be a critic of his own community, his own country, his own government, his own culture. The more freedom the writer possesses, the greater the moral obligation to play the role of critic.”

Country Play Home Government Culture Community Moral Roles Greater Duty Critics Obligation Moral Obligation Moral Duty

Book:The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader

Source: The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader

“You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.”

Knows Way Love Wells Hurt Know How

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

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