I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just a long narrative form. What you use that long narrative form for can be very different.

We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.

Hillary Clinton

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

Robert Owen

No decent career was ever founded on a public.

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The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

Ronald Reagan

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

Joseph Addison

Hollywood's just not funny.

Chris Rock

You never go into a marriage expecting to get divorced. You go into a marriage expecting it's going to last forever, and you have a lot of ways you dream about the future. You have all these expectations, and then you have to adjust those expectations, and it can be a very unnerving, confusing time.

Jenna Fischer

Never contend with one that is foolish, proud, positive, testy, or with a superior, or a clown, in matter of argument.

Thomas Fuller

Comics are really my life blood in a lot of respects.

Bill Sienkiewicz

When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

Katarina Witt

My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of significant financial means. I always told them, 'I didn't always have what I wanted. I always had what I needed.' My parents always provided that.

Marco Rubio

Find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go.

Lauren Oliver