"Well, if it's a symbol, to hell with it."

-- Flannery O'Connor

#Hell Quotes #Wells Quotes #Symbols Quotes

“No power on earth compares to a mother's tender prayers.”
“With a defeat, when you lose, you get up, you make it better, you try again. That's what I do in life, when I get down, when I get sick, I don't want to just stop. I keep going and I try to do more. Everyone always says never give up but you really have to take that to heart and really do never definitely give up. Keep trying.”
“Since it was there, Larkin got another bowl, spooned up stew for himself. â€œHe fights with us. Weâ€™re an army.â€ â€œAn army? Talk about delusions of grandeur. What are you?â€ she asked Glenna. â€œWitch.â€ â€œSo, weâ€™ve got a witch, a sorcerer, a couple of refugees from Geall and a vampire. Some army.”
“The vision of a culture lies in what becomes its major institutions, in what it remembers as its most impacting events, in who it sees as its heroes.”
“To get what he wanted, a man had to give other people what they wanted.”

Source : Dashiell Hammett (1965). “The novels of Dashiell Hammett”
“Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.”
“If you don't know what to play, play nothing.”
“If you stare at the center of the universe, there is coldness there. A blankness. Ultimately, the universe doesn't care about us. Time doesn't care about us. That's why we have to care about each other.”

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