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#1. If I had the pen of Moliere, I could make him comic. That is the role of art, is it not? To make monsters comic, so we can bear them, and our own cheap griefs into grand tragedy, so that others will weep with us.

Judith Merkle Riley

#2. I am lonely here sometimes. I'm like the gate, swinging in the breeze when I long for someone to just secure the latch and stop me from flailing about

Sarah Jio

#3. There was a regulation that if they remained at large in enemy territory for some weeks longer, they could be repatriated to the United States. It was for this that they had made a hazardous parachute jump and destroyed an expensive, very slightly damaged aeroplane.

Evelyn Waugh

#4. I don't know too much about Bollywood at all, but I've done quite a bit of dancing ... and not much singing.

Satya Bhabha

#5. The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they're learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences.

Donna Tartt

#6. I put things on shuffle a lot, which is probably why I don't have a very good idea of genre.

Oliver Sim

#7. People say, on the raft, you must have hallucinated. Baloney. We were sharper after 47 days than the day we started because our minds were empty of all the war and contamination; we had clean minds to fill with good thoughts. Every day we'd exercise our minds.

Louis Zamperini

#8. Today, the society called New Zealand is composed of 4.5 million Sapiens and 50 million sheep.

Yuval Noah Harari

#9. The words of truth are simple.

Aeschylus

#10. Remarkably, the light didn't shine on things but through them. Through the grass. Through the trees. Through the wall. And through the people who were gathered there. There

John Burke

#11. There's no such thing as a free lunch, unless you have a coupon for a free lunch ... or someone gives you a lunch ... never mind.

John Adams