- "It is the hope forlorn that seals the poet."- Cyrano, Cyrano de Bergerac
- "you were once shoved head-first through someone's vagina, why on earth are you acting so dignified?" -XKCD.
- "To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking." -Agnes de Mille
- "An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations." -Charles de Montesquieu
- "Je ne suis pas d'accord avec ce que vous dites, mais je me battrai jusqu'à la mort pour que vous ayez le droit de le dire." -Voltaire
- "Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed. / Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. / Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent that in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter. / Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it. / Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness." -Bertrand Russell
- "It is not difficult to know something; the difficulty is in knowing how to use what one knows."- Han Fei-zi
- "To have faults is not good, but faults are human. Worse is to have them and not see them. Yet beyond that is to have faults, to see them, and to do nothing about them. But even that seems mild compared to him who knows his faults, and who parades them about and encourages them as though they were virtues." -I've forgotten, actually, who said this.
- "Any time something is written against me, I not only share the sentiment but feel I could do the job far better myself. Perhaps I should advise would-be enemies to send me their grievances beforehand, with full assurance that they will receive my every aid and support. I have even secretly longed to write, under a pen name, a merciless tirade against myself." -Jorge Luis Borges
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