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(on grief) And you do come out of it, that’s true. After a year, after five. But you don’t come out of it like a train coming out of a tunnel, bursting through the downs into sunshine and that swift, rattling descent to the Channel; you come out of it as a gull comes out of an oil-slick. You are tarred and feathered for life. Julian Barnes
The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his own desire or needs lead him to do so, will always be a fool. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Alan Bennett quote: "I have to seem like a human being all the time, but I seldom..."
I have to seem like a human being all the time, but I seldom have to be one. I have people to do that for me. Alan Bennett
Victor Hugo quote: "The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten."
The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten. Victor Hugo
We all suffer under a curse, the curse that we know more than we can endure, and there is nothing, absolutely nothing we can do about the force and the lure of this knowledge. Anne Rice
We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation -rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. Ralph Waldo Emerson
As the wine went down in the bottles, patriotism arose in the three men. And when the wine was gone they went down the hill arm in arm for comradeship and safety, and they walked into Monterey. In front of an enlistment station they cheered loudly for America and dared Germany to do her worst. They howled menaces at the German Empire until the enlistment sergeant awakened and put on his uniform and came into the street to silence them. He remained to enlist them. John Steinbeck
Tom Clancy quote: "The point of life was to press on, to do the best you can, to..."
The point of life was to press on, to do the best you can, to make the world a better place. Tom Clancy
Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry. John Dewey
Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in. Wallace Stegner
Up and down," Meera would sigh sometimes as they walked, "then down and up. Then up and down again. I hate these stupid mountains of yours, Prince Bran."Yesterday you said you loved them."Oh, I do. My lord father told me about mountains, but I never saw one till now. I love them more than I can say."Bran made a face at her. "But you just said you hated them."Why can't it be both?" Meera reached up to pinch his nose."Because they're different," he insisted. "Like night and day, or ice and... George R. R. Martin
Rick Warren quote: "As long as you do things for God, you are a Hall of Famer in..."
As long as you do things for God, you are a Hall of Famer in heaven's list. Rick Warren
What does this beauty or than music mean to you? you cannot see the waves rolling up the beach or hear their roar. What do they mean to you?' In the most evident sense they mean everything. I cannot fathom or define their meaning any more than I can fathom or define love or religion or goodness. Helen Keller
Robb says the man died bravely, but Jon says he was afraid."What do you think?" his father asked. Bran thought about it. "can a man still be brave if he's afraid?"That is the only time a man can be brave," his father told him. George R. R. Martin
Paulo Coelho quote: "If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make..."
If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid. Paulo Coelho

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