"Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw," that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?"

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Source : Donna Tartt (2011). “The Secret History”, p.7, Vintage

Donna Tartt

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“Action is what separates the do-ers from the dreamers.”

Source : FaceBook post by Lennox Lewis from Aug 18, 2012
“You have to communicate on a much greater scale. With a camera, you can use the flick of an eye. On stage, a lot of other things are happening that can pull focus or energy. You're always thinking the same way, but you have to amplify your thoughts with the volume of your speech and the ways you use your whole body to communicate what you're feeling. It's a little bit different from film.”
“That is the inescapable math of tragedy and the multiplication of grief. Too many good people die a little when they lose someone they love. One death begets two or twenty or one hundred. It's the same all over the world.”

Source : Ben Sherwood (2010). “Charlie St. Cloud: A Novel”, p.267, Bantam
“For far too long the House of Commons has been run as little more than a private club by and for gentleman amateurs.”

Source : "John Bercow says he is ready for the Speaker's role" by Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2009.
“People say I'll be drafted in the first round, maybe even higher.”
“A democrat need not believe that the majority will always reach a wise decision. He should however believe in the necessity of accepting the decision of the majority, be it wise or unwise, until such a time that the majority reaches another decision.”
“Shoes are a mirror of what you want, what you are or what you're missing”
“For me my friendship with Omar Rodriguez from Mars Volta that friendship really means a lot to me because he's another creative person who works as hard as I do.”

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