"Nearly all bookish people are snobs, and especially the more enlightened among them. They are apt to assume that if a writer has immense circulation, if he is enjoyed by plain persons, and if he can fill several theatres at once, he cannont possibly be worth reading and merits only indifference and disdain."

-- Arnold Bennett

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“To a woman--I mean, a nice woman--there is no such thing as men. There is a man; and either she is so fond of him that she can talk of nothing else, however unfavourably, or so much in love with him that she never mentions his name.”

Source : Ada Leverson (2012). “Love at Second Sight”, p.97, tredition
“Being awesome makes me hungry.”
“I swear to God, I would marry the first person who asked me, just because it seems so completely impossible that anyone would ask.”
“I don't know why people were so upset with me. Prince got his own symbol. I just wanted to adopt the handicap symbol as my own so I could park in handicap spots. Deformed people should be honored to park so close to me. Meeting a celebrity like me may give them hope in their mistake of a life.”
“I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law.”
“Don't be stupid. You're a child. You don't know what it means to be in love." And she flung open the car door as if she wished she had the strength to rip it from the hinges, and stalked off to the house through the rain. That night, I lay in bed, troubled by what she'd said, blocking out the sounds of argument from my parents' room. Was love what my parents had? Yelling at eachother, worrying about money? Never smiling? Never happy? If that was love, then I didn't want it.”

Source : Barry Lyga (2009). “Boy Toy”, p.317, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“To tell the truth, the chariot was an astonishing sight to behold, because I had polished the steel of my flying house so carefully that it reflected the sunlight on all sides. It was so bright and dazzling that I thought, myself, that I had been carried away in a chariot of fire.”

Source : "The Other World: Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon". Book by Cyrano de Bergerac, 1657.
“In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.”

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