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“It should not be denied... that being footloose has always exhilarated us. It is associated in our minds with escape from history and oppression and law and irksome obligations, with absolute freedom, and the road has always led West.”
Source : Wallace Earle Stegner (1987). “The American West as Living Space”, p.22, University of Michigan Press
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“Writing is one of the most ancient forms of prayer. To write is to believe communication is possible that other people are good, that you can awaken their generosity and their desire to do better.”
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“The idea of the past is as useless as the idea of the future. Both could be invoked by anybody about anything. There is never any more beauty than there is now. There is no more joy or wonder or sorrow than there is now, nor perfection, nor any more evil nor any more good than there is now.”
Source : Richard Flanagan (2016). “Gould's Book of Fish”, p.423, Random House
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“Why do people always gesture with their hands when they talk on the phone?”
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“I don't want to be on the bandwagon of dogging any president or anybody in positions where they have all these different constituencies.”
Source : Source: therumpus.net
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“Men have no special right because they belong to one race or another: the word man defines all rights.”
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“I will see you bereft of all that you have, of home and happiness and beautiful things. I will see your nation cast down and your allies drawn away. I will see you as alone and friendless and wretched as am I; and then you may live as long as you like, in some dark and lonely corner of the earth, and I shall call myself content. -Lien, Albino Celestial (Dragon)”
Source : Naomi Novik (2009). “In His Majesty's Service: Three Novels of Temeraire (His Majesty's Service, Throne of Jade, and Black Powder War)”, p.674, Del Rey
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“When I was speaking about communicating, I meant that the listener - we have to reach the listener; otherwise, of course, you're writing the piece, as I say, only for the satisfaction of seeing it on the paper for yourself, and then it ends right there.”
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“Tell my brother to remember his heart in all things. That is where his honor and his destiny will be found. Tell him.”
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“The building block of every community is family.”
