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“If you didn't have a choice, you had to make a choice. If you didn't have options, you made some. You couldn't just let this world happen to you... he didn't see eternity. He saw this girl and this moment and this one slim chance.”
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“A story is a way to say something that can't be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is. You tell a story because a statement would be inadequate. When anybody asks what a story is about, the only proper thing is to tell them to read the story. The meaning of fiction is not abstract meaning but experienced meaning.”
Source : Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.96, Macmillan
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“The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased.”
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“Nothing puts things in perspective as quickly as a mountain.”
Source : Josephine Tey (2013). “The Daughter of Time”, p.24, Simon and Schuster
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“The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.”
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“I think that’s a mistake if [Aaron Rodgers] does not throw at [Richard Sherman]. Now, he doesn’t have to make it personal vendetta against him because I’m sure all year, all he’s heard is how he did not throw on Richard Sherman.”
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“There is no horror, no amount of evil in the world, that a true believer can't rationalize as consistent with a loving God. It's the ultimate way of fooling yourself.”
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“I think if a woman is feeling aggressive, she should be aggressive and not hold back.”
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“America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.”
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“New developments in weapon systems during the 1950s and early 1960s created a situation that was most dangerous, and even conducive to accidental war.”
