"What you're looking at there is my arm, going into the rock... and there it is - stuck. It's been without circulation for 24 hours. It's pretty well gone."

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Source : "127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place". Book by Aron Ralston, September 7, 2004.

Aron Ralston

#Rocks Quotes #Hands Quotes #Gone Quotes

“If I am convinced that I will procure the profoundest idea only by undergoing the profoundest pain, I shall beg for strength to endure that pain.”
“I started my first novel when I was 10, and have produced thousands of pages of juvenilia since.”

Source : "Guardian first book award shortlist: Ned Beauman". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2010.
“I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.”
“Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous amount of factual historical record about the life of a prophet and about social conditions in Arabia at that time. So it's possible to look at the origin of Islam in a scholarly way.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“The exit is usually where the entrance was.”
“I think most directors subscribe to the principle that less is more, and the best direction is the most concise direction.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.”

Source : Tracy Kidder, Richard Todd (2013). “Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction”, p.19, Random House
“she had long accepted the fact that happiness is like swallows in Spring. It may come and nest under your eaves or it may not. You cannot command it. When you expect to be happy you are not, when you don't expect to be happy there's suddenly Easter in your soul, though it be midwinter.”

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