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In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#classic #literature #modern #newest #oldest

The easiest person to deceive is one's self. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#easiest #person #self

The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#enthusiast #may #person #prudent #ruins

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#compass #ever #found #happiness #immediately

Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#few #friends #his #indeed #life

Every story is a story about death. But perhaps, if we are lucky, our story about death is also a story about love. ↗

— Helen Humphreys

#love #stories #death

Life," Garp wrote, "is sadly not structured like a good old-fashioned novel. Instead an end occurs when those who are meant to peter out have petered out. All that is left is memory. But even a nihilist has memory. ↗

— John Irving

#memory #death

Thought is the parent of the deed. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#parent #thought

Attraction is explained as a function of reincarnation: people who knew each other in past lives are helpless in the face of an emotion which has passed, untouched, through bodily death. Who wouldn’t be? ↗

— Brenda Walker

#reading-by-moonlight #death

The reason I started writing movies was because I kept getting parts that I just kind of stepped into. I didn't have to do a lot of work and I ended up getting sort of bored. ↗

— Scott Caan

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