"For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses."

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

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“When you leave college, there are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when you get a job, there will be thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living. But you are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life.”

Source : Anna Quindlen (2002). “A Short Guide to a Happy Life”, Arrow/Children's (a Division of Random House Group)
“When I meet a person that tells me they stopped hooping for no reason, I thank them for opening my door and making it easier.”
“Man, that's the only kind of book I like Â– one that's so real you want to find out everything there is to know about the person who wrote it, like how tall he is and what kind of music he likes and whether or not he really went through all the stuff he was writing about.”

Source : Adam Rapp (2011). “Under the Wolf, Under the Dog”, p.117, Candlewick Press
“In the first few pages, Kundera discusses several abstract historical figures: Robespierre, Nietzsche, Hitler. For Eunice's sake, I wanted him to get to the plot, to introduce actual "living" characters - I recalled this was a love story - and to leave the world of ideas behind. Here we were, two people lying in bed, Eunice's worried head propped on my collarbone, and I wanted us to feel something in common. I wanted this complex language, this surge of intellect, to be processed into love. Isn't that how they used to do it a century ago, people reading poetry to one another?”
“A woman may live without a lover, but a lover once admitted, she never goes through life with only one. She is deserted, and cannot bear her anguish and solitude, and hence fills up the void with a second idol.”
“It's so much easier to count our disadvantages than tot up the mitigating circumstances that generally outweigh the despair.”

Source : "Dear Mariella" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. May 08, 2010.
“Being uneducated is no guarantee against being obnoxious.”
“In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.”

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