"Books are boring," James said as he wrote. "They line the walls like a thousand leather doorways to be opened into worlds unknown," I offered."

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Source : Laura Whitcomb (2005). “A Certain Slant of Light”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Laura Whitcomb

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“In the foundation and development of a successful enterprise there must be a single-minded pursuit of financial profit.”
“I come to a red light, tempted to go through it, then stop once I see a billboard sign that I donâ€™t remember seeing and I look up at it. All it says is 'Disappear Here' and even though itâ€™s probably an ad for some resort, it still freaks me out a little and I step on the gas really hard and the car screeches as I leave the light.”
“The concept of karma is a beautiful concept in Sanskrit. The whole idea of karma is that every being has an innate tendency - the karma of ice is to be cold, the karma of fire is to burn, the karma of the trees is to grow and bear fruit. In the same way, a human has a certain thrust. What I've realized is that my thrust is to be in the world, like in the world of business.”
“Life has a funny way of becoming ordinary as soon as it can.”

Source : "This Week in Fiction: Colm Tóibín" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. February 24, 2013.
“When it comes to trade, when it comes to standing up to countries like North Korea, when it comes to standing up to guys like Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump is not a conservative.”

Source : Source: www.realclearpolitics.com
“Peace, like freedom, is no original state which existed from the start; we shall have to make it, in the truest sense of the word.”

Source : Willy Brandt (1971). “Peace: Writings and Speeches of the Nobel Peace Prize Winner, 1971”
“It is time to finish off the U.S. once and for all.”
“If you give your life to a cause in which you believe, and if it is right and just, and if your life comes to an end as a result of this, then your life could not have been spent in a more redemptive way. I think that is what my husband has done.”

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