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It is a paradox of the acquisitive society in which we now live that although private morals are regulated by law, the entrepreneur is allowed considerable freedom to use - and abuse - the public in order to make money. Gore Vidal
Freedom Money Law Entrepreneur Live Society Considerable Paradox Morals Allowed Abuse Make Although Private Order Which Public Use Now
You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it. Gustave Flaubert
Work Art You Man Worth Enemies Spoken Calculate Importance His Number Harm
A dog is a pitiful thing, depending wholly on companionship, and utterly lost except in packs or by the side of his master. Leave him alone, and he does not know what to do except bark and howl and trot about till sheer exhaustion forces him to sleep. H. P. Lovecraft
Alone Dog Master Lost Side About Except He Know Him Forces Sheer Does Till Exhaustion Leave Howl His Depending Pitiful Packs Bark Companionship Wholly Thing Utterly Sleep
I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess. H. P. Lovecraft
Library Before Live Books Furniture Indeed Possess Week Part Without Go Private Squat Let Go Floor Sleep
In Mumbai, the air is saltier. The sea is roilier. The traffic is snarlier. The pinks are pinker. The ostentation is crazier. Hanya Yanagihara
Air Traffic Crazier Sea Mumbai Ostentation
Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. Harper Lee
You Courage Matter Before See Through Know Real Begin Anyway
Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of walking right in for coffee. But they wouldn't dream of interrupting you at golf. Harper Lee
Home You People Coffee Nothing Think Dream Know Well Southern Walking Golf Working Right Interrupting
To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it. Herman Melville
Great You Book Though Must Tried Volume Written Enduring Theme Flea Mighty Produce Choose Many Ever
Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity. Herman Melville
Hope Struggle Soul Perishable Loose Breaking Eternity Her
Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending. Herman Melville
Mercy Alike About Mending Somehow Head Sadly Cracked Heaven Us Need
Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life. Hermann Hesse
Life Wisdom Art Thoughts Soul Feeling Nothing Preparation Every Unity Thinking Secret Capacity Breathing Moment
If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion. Hermann Hesse
Time Good Suffering Good And Evil World Illusion Evil Dividing Between Also Bliss Real Line Eternity Then
When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues. Honore de Balzac
Love Women Men Nothing Crimes Our Virtues Everything Give Forgive Us Even Credit
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are. Honore de Balzac
Happiness Happy Say Alike Bad Exaggerate Misfortune Never Off
When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich. Honore de Balzac
Great Religion People Will Fall Rich Attack After Swept Away Royalty
I go to the gym and work through a routine. But if you see someone with a personal trainer, you know they do 10 times more than you do. You give up your sense of identity. If you watch 'The Biggest Loser,' you see people give up their identity to become something else. Irvine Welsh
Work You People Become Sense Else See Someone Give Something Something Else Gym More Through Know Identity Go Loser Up Times Trainer Than Personal Biggest Personal Trainer Your Routine Watch
Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing. Isaac Bashevis Singer
Man Writing Words Seen Single Thinking Sum Sum Total Total His Sentences Even Originality
Life is God's novel. Let him write it. Isaac Bashevis Singer
Life God Write Him Novel
The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it. Israel Zangwill
Love True Love Love Is First Sight Only True Love At First Sight Second
I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. J. D. Salinger
Courage Sick Having Absolute Nobody
As you get older, you get more... genealogical. Jack Kerouac
You Older More Get
My father and my mother and my sister and I have always voted Republican, always. Jack Kerouac
Mother Father Sister Voted Always Republican
American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. James Baldwin
Beautiful History About More Various Longer Terrible Said Than American Anyone Anything American History Ever Larger
The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world, and the most dangerous. James Clavell
Work Truth Truth Is World Dangerous Important Most Important Work The Most Important Whole Search
My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire. James Joyce
Words Mind Sinking Cold Through Quagmire Polished Stones Her
I believed then - in a deep, easy way that is impossible for me as an adult - that there was more to this world than meets the eye. Trees had spirits; the wind spoke. If you followed a toad or a raven deep into the heart of the forest, they were sure to lead you to something magical. Jennifer McMahon
Me You Heart World Impossible Wind Trees Meets Way Eye Easy Easy Way Followed Spirits Magical Something More Adult Lead Had Raven Spoke Sure Were Forest Than Toad Then Deep Believed
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