Every book

is the wreck of a perfect idea. 

- Iris Murdoch, The black prince

There's always

someone lower.

There is something about language

that hurts the thing it describes.

- Laurie Stone, My life as an animal

Forgive me.

I may have made this joke before.

If I don't have you

At least I'll still have me.

- Cyn, 'I'll still have me'

Original

 sentience.

- Duncan Trussell

Sometimes a lie

 is just not yet true.

Oh my soul, do not aspire to immortal life,

but exhaust the limits of the possible.

– Pindar

Hope has two beautiful daughters.

Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they.

– St. Augustine

Between a high, solid wall and an egg that breaks against it,

I will always stand on the side of the egg.

– Haruki Murakami

The purpose of a story

is to sound an alarm.

– Haruki Murakami

There are men whom one hates

until a certain moment when one sees, through a chink in their armor, the writhing of something nailed down and in torment.

- Gerald Kersh

Make game of that

which makes as much of thee.

- The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Edward Fitzgerald