"Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst."

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Source : Joseph Conrad pt. 3, sec. 1 (1924)

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“I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me.”
“In life, as on the stage, it's not who I am but what I do that's the measure of my worth and the secret of my success. All the rest is showiness, arrogance and conceit.”
“Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth.”
“God made saints out of far worse people than you.”
“Strangely, meanness pays more than offering constructive and interesting commentary. Every season I think, "This is the last season. I'm not gonna read tomorrow morning. Forget it." The first thing when I wake up - quite late, usually - I am craving the newspaper.”
“California can and does furnish the best bad things that are obtainable in America.”

Source : Hinton Rowan Helper (1855). “The Land of Gold: Reality Versus Fiction”, p.68
“Who can describe the bond of God's love? Who is able to explain the majesty of its beauty? The height to which love leads is indescribable. ... In love the master received us, Jesus Christ our Lord, in accordance with God's will gave his blood for us, and his flesh for our flesh, and his life for our lives.”
“Nothing is allowed in public, while everything is permitted behind closed doors.”

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