"Everything popular is wrong."

-- Oscar Wilde

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“My parents are more likely to know who Franz Liszt is than Snooki.”
“There is very little you can beat into a child, but no limit to what you can hug out of it.”
“Alcohol causes a lot of problems, and then to solve these problems, you drink more.”

Source : "Gary Shteyngart's Rules for Vodka Drinking" by Ben Detrick, www.esquire.com. August 9, 2010.
“Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up... now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.”
“Listeners are kind of ambushed... if a poem just happens to be said when they're listening to the radio. The listener doesn't have time to deploy what I call their 'poetry deflector shields' that were installed in high school - there's little time to resist the poem.”
“No matter whether one is flying over Newfoundland or the sea of lights that stretches from Boston to Philadelphia after nightfall, over the Arabian deserts which gleam like mother-of-pearl, over the Ruhr or the city of Frankfurt, it is as though there were no people, only the things they have made and in which they are hiding.”

Source : W. G. Sebald (2016). “The Rings of Saturn”, p.57, New Directions Publishing
“Yes, well, life is a folly. If you live long enough, nothing is surprising.”

Source : Tracy Chevalier (1999). “Girl with a Pearl Earring”, E P Dutton
“It is a happy moment when our desire crosses with the will of Heavenly Father.”

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