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Dirt is a great respecter of persons; it lets you alone when you are well dressed, but as soon as your collar is gone it flies towards you from all directions.

George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London.

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I had two glorious days of loafing.

George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London.

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But the trouble is that intelligent, cultivated people, the very people who might be expected to have liberal opinions, never do mix with the poor.

George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London.

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Everyone was very happy, overwhelmingly certain that the world was a good place and we a notable set of people.

George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London.

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It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.

George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London.

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A pioneer should have imagination, should be able to enjoy the idea of things more than the things themselves.

Willa Cather, O Pioneers!

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No, she thought, one could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low.

Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse.

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For the average American freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.

Gore Vidal, Burr.

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It seemed funny to me that the sunset she saw from her patio and the one I saw from the back steps was the same one. Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset.

S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders.

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No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey.

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Envy is a horrible thing. It is unlike all other kinds of suffering in that there is no disguising it, no elevating it into tragedy. It is more than merely painful, it is disgusting.

George Orwell, Burmese Days.

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There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should you long for a perfect doctrine, my friend. Rather, you should long for the perfection of yourself. The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.

Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game.

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Angélique did not speak with much anxiety, not because she was indifferent, but because she was so secure in their good fortune. Only good things could happen to a rich, energetic, handsome young man like Amédée with a new baby in the cradle and a new header in the field.

Willa Cather, O Pioneers!

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The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.

Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar.

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When you hurt people, they begin to love you less. That’s what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.

Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things.

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When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don't see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse and every human tragedy.

Joseph Heller, Catch-22.

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Here is my experience. Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you. What you want to live and be happy in the world is a woman who has her own life and lets you have yours.

Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch.

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