Quotes

I tweet them, but want to collect some of the more poignant and impactful quotes I've come across.

"Let it change into a serpent in his hand and rend him.

Let him be struck with palsy and all his members blasted.

Let him languish in pain crying aloud for mercy, and

let there be no surcease to his agony till he sing in dissolution.

Let bookworms gnaw his entrails in token of the Worm that dieth not,

and when at last he goeth to his final punishment,

let the flames of Hell consume him forever."

The Swerve
P 30 (A curse to those who damage collected scrolls)

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"All sentimental people are betrayed so many times"

Ernest Hemingway - From the Collected Short Stories

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"For ill is Love when shared 'twixt partners Twain"

The Arabian Nights - P 119

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"Whoso endangereth his days, e'en an he 'scape deserveth no praise"

The Arabian Knights - P 88

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"Injured pride is the hardest of all injuries to recover from. a fracture to a man's dignity and self-regard is much worse than a broken foot and takes much longer to heal"

Salman Rushdie - Two Years Eight Months and Twenty Eight Nights

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Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; and it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him and resigning himself to let it eat him away."

Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities - P 106

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"I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."
Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird - P22

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"We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present anyway. We know when it's too late.
Stephen King - 11/22/63

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"No one can tell what goes on between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. you just... Come out the other side. Or you don't."
Stephen King - The Stand P449

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"Develop a little self-righteousness. A lot of that is an ugly thing, God knows, but a little applied over all your scruples is an absolute necessity! It is to the soul what a good sun-block is to the skin."
Stephen King - The Stand P811

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"I have been cast by Fate, and my own character, for the vital though never glorious role of Fifth Business!"
Robertson Davies - Fifth Business P15


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But what I knew then was that nobody - not even my mother-was to be trusted in a strange world that showed very little of itself on the surface.
Robertson Davies - Fifth Business P36


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