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I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn how to…

— Christopher Hampton

In the most commonplace, tiresome, ridiculous, malicious, coarse, crude, or even crooked people or events I had to seek out rare things, good things,…

— William Saroyan

My imagination would never have served me as it has, but for the habit of commonplace, humble, patient, daily, toiling, drudging attention

— Charles Dickens

I like to put myself into situations where I can experience the unconfused purity of being a human predator. Situations where my circumstances are…

— Steven Rinella

When I found myself regarded as respectable, I began to wonder what sins I had committed. I must be very wicked, I thought. I…

— Bertrand Russell

I had to leave home so I could find myself, find my own intrinsic nature buried under the personality that had been imposed on…

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

I wondered what else in my life I perceived to be wrong or difficult instead of exploring to understand the true purpose.

— Marlo Morgan

I needed to justify my existence, and I had made an absolute of literature. It took me thirty years to get rid of this…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant, someone who disrupts the daily drag of life just enough to leave the victim…

— Elvis Costello

Growing up in the '70s and '80s, science fiction and especially fantasy had such a stigma attached to them. I felt so punished and…

— Lev Grossman