"Most of authors seek fame, but I seek for justice - a holier impulse than ever entered into the ambitious struggles of the votaries of that fickle, flirting goddess."

-- Davy Crockett

#Struggle Quotes #Flirting Quotes #Justice Quotes

“I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by my wrist and pushed me back into my chair. 'It is both, or none,' said he. 'You may say before this gentleman anything which you may say to me.”
“Cruelty is not a literary value.”
“Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.”
“But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion.”
“Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.”
“I want to tell a story that makes the reader always want to see what will happen next.”
“If I now recognize evil in other people, is it not because I have become evil too?”
“What is the importance of human lives? Is it their continuing alive for so many years like animals in a menagerie? The value of a man cannot be judged by the number of diseases from which he escapes. The value of a man is in his human qualities: in his character, in his conscience, in the nobility and magnanimity, of his soul. Torturing animals to prolong human life has separated science from the most important thing that life has produced - the human conscience.”

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