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"I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be."

Charles Dickens· b. 1719View quote →

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🇺🇸Ernest Hemingway

Literature

1899–1961

"'Why, you sad son-of-a-bitch, how can you be so cocky and stand there and block cars when you're nothing but a miserable bear and a black bear at that - not even a polar or a grizzly or anything worth while.'"

"But to me both the parties seem to be tarred with the same brush."

"It may be called the Master Passion—the hunger for Self-Approval."

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🇫🇷Albert Camus

Literature

continental philosophy

1913–1960

"Artistic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of the world."

"If I had amnesia, I'd be almost like other men. Perhaps I'd even be able to love you."

"Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape."

"One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age."

"What's sauce for the gander is sauce for the goose."

"Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful stroke!"

"Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste."

"My worst mistake was the stupid suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism, all along."

"It is pleasant to observe by what regular gradation we surmount the force of local prejudice as we enlarge our acquaintance with the world."

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🇺🇸Gore Vidal

Literature

postmodern literature

1925–2012

"In a good cause hypocrisy becomes a virtue."

"Gratitude fills us with rejoicing, for it so rarely finds frank expression; delicacy of feeling warms our hearts."

"I have in my head a whole army of people pleading to be let out and awaiting my commands."

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🇺🇸Christopher Hitchens

Philosophy

atheism

1949–2011

"Peace through Strength," surely history's most exploded nostrum."

"The completion of the socialist revolution within national limits is unthinkable."

"A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman."

"It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point."

"He who is infatuated with Man leaves persons out of account so far as that infatuation extends, and floats in an ideal, sacred interest. Man, you see, is not a person, but an ideal, a spook."

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🇨🇴Gabriel García Márquez

Literature

magic realism

1927–2014

"But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love."

"For now I had begun to believe, despite all the talk of science around me, that there was a magic in spoken words."

"The means of production being the collective work of humanity, the product should be the collective property of the race. Individual appropriation is neither just nor serviceable. All belongs to all."

"Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives."

"It is characteristic of theistic "tolerance" that no one really cares what the people believe in, just so they believe or pretend to believe."

"You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese."

"Born in Lust, Turn to Dust. Born in Sin, Come on In"

"I am always surprised when people read double entendres into my innocuous babble."

"Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act."

"Lolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable name."

"The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion."

"The Female Western is the battle between the good and evil methods of getting the men who perform best."

"When you clean them up, when you make movies respectable, you kill them. The wellspring of their art, their greatness, is in not being respectable."

"Perhaps we'd understood each other too well to be attracted to one another. There were no occlusions in communication, those breaks in understanding that awaken desire."

"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons."

"And where, for God’s sake, does that wretched, utterly dishonest phrase “coalition forces” come from? There is no “coalition” in this Iraq war. There are the Americans and the British and a few Australians. That’s it."

"Several children present me with scraps of paper for autographs: obviously don't know who I am and don't care. I sign "Jackie Collins" and they go away quite content."

"Love for all means coldness to something or someone. Even Jesus, let us recall, was unnecessarily rude to his mother at Cana."

"Most of the time you can beat a woman in an argument. But what do you win? Nothing. You get short-term pleasure followed by a lot of pain."

"I will never say the things that I want to say to you. I know the damage it would do. I love you more than I hate my loneliness and pain."

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Notable Quotes

"A general belief seems to prevail in the colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than the savages or natives of Africa. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kafir."

— Mahatma Gandhi, b. 1869View →

"In reality there are as many religions as there are individuals.... Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads, so long as we reach the same goal. Wherein is the cause for quarreling?"

— Mahatma Gandhi, b. 1869View →

"I have seen Chinamen abused and maltreated in all the mean, cowardly ways possible to the invention of a degraded nature, but I never saw a policeman interfere in the matter and I never saw a Chinaman righted in a court of justice for wrongs thus done him."

— Mark Twain, b. 1835View →

"We are our own slaves, not of the British. This should be engraved on our minds. The whites cannot remain if we do not want them. If the idea is to drive them out with firearms, let every Indian consider what precious little profit Europe has found in these."

— Mahatma Gandhi, b. 1869View →

"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always."

— Mahatma Gandhi, b. 1869View →

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