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“At any particular moment in a man's life, he can say that everything he has done and not done, that has been done and not been done to him, has brought him to that moment. If he's being installed as Chieftain or receiving a Nobel Prize, that's a fulfilling notion. But if he's in a sleeping bag at ten thousand feet in a snowstorm, parked in the middle of a highway and waiting to freeze to death, the idea can make him feel calamitously stupid.”
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“When you fool a fool you strike a blow for intelligence.”
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“If women envy men, we can now see that it's because of the privileges their anatomy confers and not the anatomy itself.”
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“For a director and a producer to be named on the writing credits is practically unheard of.”
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“What is ***** to one man is the laughter of genius to another.”
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“There is a strange taboo in our society against ending something merely because it is not pleasant-- life, love, a conversation, you name it, the etiquette is that you must begin in ignorance & persevere in the face of knowledge, & though I naturally believe that this is profoundly wrong it's not nice to go around constantly offending people.”
Source : Helen DeWitt (2016). “The Last Samurai”, p.136, New Directions Publishing
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“Protecting yourself from failure is probably not a good way to live.”
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“So why did you want to kiss me?" "We're friends aren't we?" Callum shrugged. I relaxed into a smile. "Of course we are." "And if you can't kiss your friends who can you kiss?" Callum smiled.”
Source : Malorie Blackman (2007). “Black & White”, p.17, Simon and Schuster
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“There is an unseen sweetness in the stomach’s emptiness. We are lutes. When the sound box is filled, no music can come forth. When the brain and the belly burn from fasting, every moment a new song rises out of the fire. The mists clear, and a new vitality makes you spring up the steps before you . . .”
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“Illustrators are usually illustrating something big or commercial if not outright advertising. It's a form of prostitution, but that's cool because we don't have any moral hang-up about it.”
Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
