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“My act is sort of improvisational. I have a skeleton in my head, but no fat or skin on it.”
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“Man's indecency to man all over the world rules out the idea of humanity as an actuality. It is a dream of young idealists. In practice a misnomer”
Source : Errol Flynn, Jeffrey Meyers (2002). “My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn”, p.410, Rowman & Littlefield
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“I try to avoid having thoughts. They lead to other thoughts, and—if you’re not careful—those lead to actions. Actions make you tired. I have this on rather good authority from someone who once read it in a book.”
Source : Brandon Sanderson (2009). “Warbreaker”, p.84, Macmillan
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“For what is man's soul but a flame? It flickers in and around the body of a man as does the flame around the rough log.”
Source : Selma Lagerlöf (1928). “The general's ring”
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“Life is a movie; death is a photograph.”
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“Even after killing ninety nine tigers the Maharaja should beware of the hundredth.”
Source : "Kalki : Selected Stories" by Kalki Krishnamurthy, translated by Gowri Ramnarayan, ("The Tiger King"), 1999.
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“In short, Europe’s colonization of Africa had nothing to do with differences between European and African peoples themselves, as white racists assume. Rather, it was due to accidents of geography and biogeography—in particular, to the continents’ different areas, axes, and suites of wild plant and animal species. That is, the different historical trajectories of Africa and Europe stem ultimately from differences in real estate.”
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“As American families and businesses have been forced to tighten their belts, Washington has refused to do the same.”
