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“It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with civilization. But, on the whole, the great ages have been unstable ages.”
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“Maybe they did what they had to do to live, and tried to get a little love and have a little fun before the darkness took them.”
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“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
Source : "Some of the Dharma". Book by Jack Kerouac, 1997.
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“Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than themselves; those we loved were merely happy shadows.”
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“The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home: Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.”
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“All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work of fiction.”
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“I wasn't educated. I was very lucky.”
Source : Sylvia Townsend Warner, Claire Harman (1982). “Collected poems”, Carcanet New Press ; New York : Viking Press
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“My rhyming skills got you climbing hills, I'll travel through your mind into your spine like siren drills.”
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“Once I start something, I always finish it. They had been trying to get X-Men made for 30 years and they thought maybe if I got involved, it might actually happen.”
Source : "Featured Filmmaker: Bryan Singer". Toronto Sun, www.ign.com. December 9, 2002. 
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“Through your support of UN peacekeeping, you can help to make this tantalizing word-"peace"-a reality for all the world's citizens. Together, we can spread the message that UN peacekeeping is essential. Without it, the world would be a much less stable, and more violent, place.”
