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“There are two ways of getting out of a trial. One is simply to try to get rid of the trial, and be thankful when it is over. The other is to recognize the trial as a challenge from God to claim a larger blessing than we have ever had, and to hail it with delight as an opportunity of obtaining a larger measure of divine grace.”
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“Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.”
Source : A. E. Hotchner (2010). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, p.11, Harper Collins
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“Eagleton has spent his life inside two mental boxes, Catholicism and Marxism, of both of which he is a severe internal critic—that is, he frequently kicks and scratches at the inside of the boxes, but does not leave them. Neither are ideologies that loosen their grip easily, and people who need the security of adherence to a big dominating ideology, however much they kick and scratch but without daring to leave go, hold on to it every bit as tightly as it holds onto them. The result is of course strangulation, but alas not mutual strangulation: the ideology always wins.”
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“There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them.”
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“Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.”
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“I will definitely attempt to sail around the world again. In fact, I can't wait for the chance to try again.”
Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.199, Thomas Nelson Inc
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“When a girl is beautiful, she gets to pick - she never has to wait for someone to choose her.”
Source : Adriana Trigiani (2003). “Big Stone Gap: A Novel”, p.25, Ballantine Books
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“Shakespeare was a smart dude. He was the president of Rome.”
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“Somebody had to bring the truth to the doorstep of this president.”
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“If the only obstacle to the renewal and modernization of France is a choice of personnel, I am completely convinced that the president will make the right choice, .. What is at stake is not Alain Juppe but France.”
