“Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it -- namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”— William Shakespeare, amazon.com
“Reflection is useless, the world is senseless. Evil is its only permanence. God is not alive. Love cannot be trusted. Surface, surface, surface was all that anyone found meaning in … this was civilization as I saw it, colossal and jagged …”— Bret Easton Ellis, amazon.com
“Quite collected at cocktail parties, meanwhile in my head I'm undergoing open-heart surgery.”— Anne Sexton, amazon.com
“But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window — maybe rearrange all the furniture.”— Raymond Carver, amazon.com
“It had gotten to the point where it seemed like nothing matters, because I’m not a real person and neither is anyone else.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.com
“The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.com
“Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.com
“One of the biggest regrets of the dying is not being true to and taking more time for themselves.”— Kristin Addis, thoughtcatalog.com