"Rage is caused by a conviction, almost comic in its optimistic origins , that a given frustration has not been written into the contract of …"

— Alain de Botton

"As we take, in fact, a general view of the wonderful stream of our consciousness, what strikes us first is this different pace of its parts.…"

— William James

"Remember, I've got no idea what this is all about," said the girl when they were in the living room, a narrow room, where blue fought with r…"

— Dashiell Hammett

"I'm probably goin' to be promoted, and it'll be more than twenty bucks you'll get then, you just wait. You'll have enough to live on, Ma . Y…"

— Gabrielle Roy

"If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. It’s better to live somehow than not at …"

— Anton Chekhov