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Alphonse Daudet
"My imagination doesn't require anything more of the book than to provide a framework within which it can wander."
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Source : Alphonse Daudet (2018). “In the Land of Pain”, p.17, Random House
Alphonse Daudet
#Book Quotes
#Imagination Quotes
#Framework Quotes
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“If the virgin Mary had an abortion, I'd still be carried in a chariot of stampeding horses.”
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“When I was young, my father used to say, ‘If you are alive, there is hope for a better day and something good to happen. If there is nothing good left in the destiny of a person, he or she will die.’ I thought about these words during my journey, and they kept me moving even when I didn’t know where I was going. Those words became the vehicle that drove my spirit forward and made it stay alive.”
Source : Ishmael Beah (2007). “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier”, p.54, Sarah Crichton Books
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“If you're really a mean person you're going to come back as a fly and eat poop.”
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“If you can read and have more imagination than a doorknob, what need do you have for a 'movie version' of a novel?”
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“Investing is forgoing consumption now in order to have the ability to consume more at a later date.”
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“No matter how many Christmas presents you give your child, there's always that terrible moment when he's opened the very last one. That's when he expects you to say, 'Oh yes, I almost forgot,' and take him out and show him the pony.”
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“When you're doing a radio show, you can express yourself.”
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“Do you fear death? Do you fear that dark abyss? All your deeds laid bare. All your sins punished. I can offer you...an escape.”
