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Quotes from pieces of Literature
Quote #1
“Alice:Would youtell me, please, which way I ought to go fromhere?
The Cheshire Cat: That depends a gooddeal on where youwant to get to.
Alice:I don't much care where.
The Cheshire Cat: Thenit doesn't much matter which way yougo.
Alice:...So long as I get somewhere.
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
Quote # 2
“Advertisinghas us chasing cars and clothes, workingjobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't
need.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
Quote #3
“Everyone has his or her own way of learning things. His way isn't the same as mine, nor mine
as his. But we're both in searchof our destinies, and I respect him for that.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Quote #4
“I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
Quote #5
“It'sthe job that's never startedas takes longest to finish.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
Quote #6
“Younever really understand a person until youconsider things fromhis point of view... Until
youclimb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Quote #7
“People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Quote # 9
“Youare not special. You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying
organic matter as everythingelse. We're all part of the same compost heap. We're all singing,
all dancing crap of the world.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
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Quotes from pieces of Literature
Quote # 10
“We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No
Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives. We’ve all
been raised on televisionto believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and
rock stars. But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissedoff.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
Quote #11
Laws change.Social systemscrumble.Universal truthsare constant. Itisa fact,it isa plainfact
that whatis true and rightis true and rightfor all.White andblackalike.
― Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave
Quote #12
Joffrey Baratheon: I am the king! I will punish you!
Tywin Lannister: Any man who must say, "I am the king" is no true king
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
Quote #13
The world's a hard place, Danny. It don't care. It don't hate youand me, but it don't love us,
either. Terrible thingshappen in the world, and they're things no one can explain. Goodpeople
die in bad, painful waysand leave the folksthat love them all alone. Sometimes it seems like it's
only the bad people who stay healthy and prosper. The world don't love you, but your momma
does and so do I.”
― Stephen King, The Shining
Quote #14
“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
