"According to some, heroic deaths are admirable things. I've never been convinced by this argument, mainly because, no matter how cool, stylish, composed, unflappable, manly, or defiant you are, at the end of the day you're also dead. Which is a little too permanent for my liking."

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Source : Jonathan Stroud (2005). “Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book Three: Ptolemy's Gate”, Disney-Hyperion

Jonathan Stroud

#The End Of The Day Quotes #Matter Quotes #Littles Quotes

“I want to teach my daughter the importance of exercising and eating healthy as she grows up.”

Source : "Ellen Pompeo: No Junk Food for Stella!" by Paul Chi, celebritybabies.people.com. May 6, 2010.
“In winter I like sprawling novels, full of conflict and intrigue, and during the bleakest, coldest days of December I holed up with Nicola Griffith 's Hild, a book of love and sex and war and religious upheaval, and I recommend it even over the warmest pair of Sorels.”
“All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling the truth.”
“It's healthy to admit you're not ok. 'It's ok not to be ok' it's brave. But don't let it win. Be sad. Have your moment, your day or week. Then do something about it and be happy. For yourself.”
“From this ***** view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally ***** theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty.”
“I'm hopeless at small talk and have a problem making eye contact.”
“we know the art of success; never forget”
“All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.”

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