"The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem to find refreshment in doing so... That is a dark frivolity, but still frivolity."

-- Robertson Davies

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“We need to look resolutely away from the impossibilities and to the Lord. His help will come ...”
“You've got to grab every opportunity that comes up.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The story is a piece of work. The novel is a way of life.”
“To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.”
“The motorcycle is a device created by the team of God and Darwin to rid the world of useless young males.”
“Stories are wondrous things. And they are dangerous.”
“Even in this place one can survive, and therefore one must want to survive, to tell the story, to bear witness; and that to survive we must force ourselves to save at least the skeleton, the scaffolding, the form of civilization. We are slaves, deprived of every right, exposed to every insult, condemned to certain death, but we still possess one power, and we must defend it with all our strength for it is the last â€” the power to refuse our consent.”

Source : Primo Levi (1996). “Survival In Auschwitz”, p.41, Simon and Schuster
“Criminal cases receive the attention of the press. The cruel and disagreeable things of life are more apt to get the newspaper space than the pleasant ones. It must be that most people enjoy hearing of and reading about the troubles of others. Perhaps men unconsciously feel that they rise in the general level as others go down.”

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