"She had wandered, without rule or guidance, into a moral wilderness... Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in desert places, where she roamed as freely as the wild Indian in his woods... The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachersâ€”stern and wild onesâ€”and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss."

-- Nathaniel Hawthorne

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“All of the secrets the vampires held dear have been exposed, and the humans can now fight back as equals in a way, which is scary.”

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“Capitalism is what people do if you leave them alone.”
“I was filled with angst in college, that I struggled with the question of my future, the meaning of my life - spoiled sheltered rich girl collides with great books and is devastated by her own banality.”
“Scientists have one thing in common with children: curiosity. To be a good scientist you must have kept this trait of childhood, and perhaps it is not easy to retain just one trait. A scientist has to be curious like a child; perhaps one can understand that there are other childish features he hasn't grown out of.”

Source : Otto Robert Frisch (1980). “What Little I Remember”, p.86, Cambridge University Press
“Love, even of the most ardent and soul-destroying kind, is never caught by the lens of the camera.”

Source : William Maxwell (2010). “So Long, See You Tomorrow”, p.77, Random House
“Had he expected me to hump her leg?”
“There is no such thing as a neutral therapist.”
“The reason "other churches" don't grow: "Jim, the truth is, I couldn't have a real prayer meeting in my church. I'd be embarrassed at the smallness of the crowd..."”

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