“None of us would choose to be Sisyphus; yet in a sense, we all are.” — Joko Beck

“There’s something wrong with a country that can allow people to write purposely negative stories.” — Donald Trump

“One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.” — Raymond Queneau

“True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.” — Karl Popper

“There is nothing more alone than being in a car at night in the rain.” — Robert Penn Warren

“Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.” — Thomas Mann

“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.” — David Foster Wallace

“Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.” — James Baldwin

“When you don’t have ideas, all you have is hate.” — Dr. Abdul El-Sayed

“Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.” — Steve Prefontaine

“Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.” — Tecumseh

“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.” — George Bernard Shaw

“I sat with my anger long enough, until she told me her real name was grief.” — C.S. Lewis

“The highest form of peace is having no desire to be seen, validated or understood by anyone.” — Epictetus

“Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts.” — Ruth Gordon

“The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.” — Lyndon B. Johnson

“Memory is a mirror that scandalously lies.” — Julio Cortazar

“Most of us expect too much from others and not enough from ourselves.” — William Feather

“Authoritarianism appeals, simply, to people who cannot tolerate complexity.” — Anne Applebaum

“The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.” — Dorothy Parker