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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

© Mark Twain

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

© Thomas Sowell

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

© James Baldwin

It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.

© George Orwell

Although there may be tragedy in your life, there's always a possibility to triumph. It doesn't matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.

© Oprah Winfrey

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

© George Washington

The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.

© Mark Twain

I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.

© Oscar Wilde

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

© Ernest Hemingway
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The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.

© James Baldwin