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“With a nearly desperate sense of isolation and a growing suspicion that I lived in an alien land, I took to the road in search of places where change did not mean ruin and where time and men and deeds connected.”
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“The boys in the hood are always hard.”
Source : Song: Boyz-n-the Hood
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“I really don't get nervous when I perform -it's more of an exciting feeling than anything else. But put me in a classroom with kids my age and have me take a test and yeah, I'll be nervous!”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.”
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“You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone.”
Source : John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.207, Penguin
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“Margaret Cavendish was one of the people who came up in the course. That was when I started thinking about her as a character for a book, but my idea was for a totally different book. It had all these characters in it; Samuel Pepys was one of the main characters. He famously wrote these extensive diaries through the period that are really funny and sort of saucy, actually.”
Source : "An interview with danielle dutton". Interview with Michelle Lyn King, www.3ammagazine.com. March 15, 2016.
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“There's a million reasons why I should give you up. But the heart wants what it wants.”
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“There is a story of some mountains of salt in Cumana, which never diminished, though carried away in much abundance by merchants; but when once they were monopolized to the benefit of a private purse, then the salt decreased; till afterward all were allowed to take of it, when it had a new access and increase. The truth of this story may be uncertain, but the application is true; he that envies others the use of his gifts decays then, but he thrives most that is most diffusive.”
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“No man is an island. You can ask people for help and they can ask for your help in return.”
Source : Source: ca.complex.com
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“Virtue and vice are concepts invented by human beings, words for a morality which human beings arbitrarily devised.”
Source : Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.145, New Directions Publishing