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Puns are the highest form of literature. — Alfred Hitchcock
Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time. — Howard Nemerov
Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of moder — Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; — Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to e — J.R.R. Tolkien
It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—th — Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot
Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life. — Aristotle, Poetics
Mother used to say that however miserable one is, there’s always something to be thankful for. And each morning, when th — Albert Camus, The Stranger
You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know. — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Muhabbat apni marzi se khulay pinjray main totay ki tarha bethnay ki salaahiyat hai. Muhabbat is ghulami ka toq hai jo i — Bano Qudsia, Hasil Ghat / حاصل گھاٹ
O how incomprehensible everything was, and actually sad, although it was also beautiful. One knew nothing. One lived and — Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund
Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself. — Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
You not only are hunted by others, you unknowingly hunt yourself. — Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
It's always seemed a little preposterous that Hamlet, for all his paralyzing doubt about everything, never once doubts t — David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
From whichever side I start, I think I am in an old place where others have been before me. — Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape. — Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
The same word we love and hate, leaves in different directions, taking different paths. — Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessin — Jane Austen, Emma
I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagin — Oscar Wilde, De Profundis and Other Writings
a spider and a flyi heard a spiderand a fly arguingwait said the flydo not eat mei serve a great purposein the worldyou — Don Marquis, Archy and Mehitabel