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33. “As a general rule, most women, before they’ve got ‘em, present to their men smiling, agreeing faces. They hide their thoughts. You now, when you’re feeling hateful, honey, you are hateful.”
Harper Lee Deception, Self-expression, Emotions, Societal Roles, Conflict, Authenticity
36. “As in no other form of lute or combat, the conditions are such; the winner takes nothing, neither his ease, nor his pleasure, nor any notion of glory, nor if he wins far enough, will he find anything within himself.”
Ernest Hemingway Conflict, Struggle, Life, Reflection, Competition
49. “But that battered word, truth, having made its appearance here, confronts one immediately with a series of riddles and has, moreover, since so many gospels are preached, the unfortunate tendency to make one belligerent.”
James Baldwin Truth, Society, Religion, Conflict, Knowledge, Riddles
54. “Charlotte was in pain, Charlotte was in torment, but he himself had given her reason enough for that; and, in respect to the rest of the whole matter of her obligation to follow her husband, that personage and she, Maggie, had so shuffled away every link between consequence and cause that the intention remained, like some famous poetic line in a dead language subject to varieties of interpretation.”
Henry James Emotional Turmoil, Philosophical Reflection, Conflict, Identity, Complexity
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