"When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints."

-- Samuel Johnson

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“Any man can turn traitor.”
“It does not matter what sixty-six percent of people do in any particular situation. All that matters is what you do.”

Source : John Elder Robison (2011). “Be Different: Adventures of a Free-Range Aspergian with Practical Advice for Aspergians, Misfits, Families & Teachers”, p.259, Broadway Books
“Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents." Translation by Sharon Lebell”
“The only really interesting questions are the unanswerable ones.”
“Only a mother's heart can be Patient enough for such as he.”

Source : Ethel Lynn Beers, Mrs. Ethelinda Elliot Beers (1879). “All Quiet Along the Potomac: And Other Poems”
“I don't know how you perceive my mission as a writer, but for me it is not a responsibility to reaffirm your concretized myths and provincial prejudices. It is not my job to lull you with a false sense of the rightness of the universe. This wonderful and terrible occupation of recreating the world in a different way, each time fresh and strange, is an act of revolutionary guerrilla warfare. I stir the soup. I inconvenience you. I make your nose run and your eyeballs water.”

Source : "Shatterday: Stories". Book by Harlan Ellison, April 1, 2014.
“It is always difficult to give oneself up; few persons anywhere ever succeed in doing so, and even fewer transcend the possessive stage to know love for what it actually is: a perpetual discovery, and immersion in the waters of reality, an unending re-creation.”
“Caution, not exuberance, should be our fiscal motto.”

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