- “What is man? He's just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.” --Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
- “Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check the road and the nature of your battle. The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible. it's yours.” --Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
- “I like to think of fire held in a man's hand. Fire, a dangerous force, tamed at his fingertips. I often wonder about the hours when a man sits alone, watching the smoke of a cigarette, thinking. I wonder what great things have come from such hours. When a man thinks, there is a spot of fire alive in his mind--and it is proper that he should have the burning point of a cigarette as his one expression.” --Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
- "Somewhere inside me there will always be the person I am tonight.” --F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
- "The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream." --Wallace Stevens
- "The world is charged with the grandeur of God." --Gerard Manley Hopkins, God's Grandeur
- "He spent whole nights from sundown to sunup and his days from dawn to dusk in poring over his books until, finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind." --Miguel Cervantes, Don Quixote
- "they...had a delightful sense of being very young and free in a civilization that was very old and free." --F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
- "Poetry loses its grandeur when you realize there isn't a single combination of words that can make someone love you back." --unknown
- "Most of all there was the ebbing, flowing, chattering, chuckling, foaming, slow-rolling wave effect of this cheerful sea of people as tonight it poured its glittering torrent into the artificial lake of laughter..." --F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
- "You can dance on my grave as long as I can choose the music." --Bransk
- "Diadems - drop - / And Doges surrender - / Soundless as Dots, / On a Disk of Snow." --Emily Dickinson, Safe in their Alabaster Chambers
- "Most fruits, if left alone on a tree, eventually do ripen, especially if they're not being yelled at." --Firoozeh Dumas, Funny in Farsi
- "Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there." --Jalaluddin Rumi
- "I have a liking for the lobster. He does not bark and knows the secrets of the deep." --Gerard Nerval, in Brooks' Bobos in Paradise
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