"I don't have to beat you. I don't have to beat you, motherfucker. I just have to keep you here... until Jean shows up."

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Source : Scott Lynch (2006). “The Lies of Locke Lamora”, p.487, Spectra

Scott Lynch

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“I'm one of those people that thinks things happen for a reason, and you just have to look for the reason.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Pure philanthropy is very well in its way but philanthropy plus five percent is a good deal better.”

Source : "Voices of Indian Freedom Movement". Book by J. C. Johari, Anmol Publications, p. 207, 1993.
“As Bill Clinton said so eloquently at the convention, during Vietnam there was a chance to serve; there was a chance not to serve.”
“Sometimes it just doesn’t seem to matter that I know what I should be doing. I still do what I am gonna do.”
“Christian society is like a bundle of sticks laid together, whereof one kindles another. Solitary men have fewest provocations to evil, but, again, fewest incitations to good. So much as doing good is better than not doing evil will I account Christian good-fellowship better than an hermitish and melancholy solitariness.”

Source : Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Devotional works”, p.21
“Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment. All that remains of my mother is what I remember and what I have written for and about her. Eventually that is all that will remain of [my husband] and me. Writing sometimes feels frivolous and sometimes sacred, but memory is one of my strongest muses. I serve her with my words. So long as people read, those we love survive however evanescently. As do we writers, saying with our life's work, Remember. Remember us. Remember me.”
“Stephen Schlesinger’s Act of Creation tells a dazzling story of the dramatic events that have shaped the world in which we live. Never has a book been more relevant to present dangers and future hopes.”
“One good thing that comes from living the nomadic life demanded by an expedition is that one sheds the fake skin donned from living too closely among society. For those of us who live for the freedom of such a lifestyle, that skin is dry and itchy and ill fitting. From my observances, that skin is much like a callus caused by the pure irritation of being forced to spend so much time with one's fellow man. Thank God I am spared such nonsense.”

Source : Karen Hawkins (2012). “The Taming of a Scottish Princess”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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