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“Hindsight, I think, is a useless tool. We, each of us, are at a place in our lives because of innumerable circumstances, and we, each of us, have a responsibility (if we do not like where we are) to move along life's road, to find a better path if this one does not suit, or to walk happily along this one if it is indeed our life's way. Changing even the bad things that have gone before would fundamentally change who we are, and whether or not that would be a good thing, I believe, it is impossible to predict. So I take my past experiences... and try to regret nothing. -Drizzt Do'urden”

Sea of Swords

R.A. Salvatore

“Women only nag when they feel unappreciated.”

Corelli's Mandolin

Louis de Bernières

“The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.”

Nine Stories

J.D. Salinger

“Starved for affection, terrified of abandonment, I began to wonder if sex was really just an excuse to look deeply into another human being's eyes.”

Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

Douglas Coupland

“Show Holmes a drop of water and he would deduce the existence of the Atlantic. Show it to me and I would look for a tap. That was the difference between us.”

The House of Silk

Anthony Horowitz

“I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run.”

Democracy in America

Alexis de Tocqueville

“After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.”

Why Marx Was Right

Terry Eagleton

“...some things are better left in the past. And true things are destined to repeat themselves.”

The Program

Suzanne Young

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