"You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway."

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Source : John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.130, Penguin

John Steinbeck

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“There is no God, cry the masses more and more vociferously; and with the loss of God man loses his sense of values â€” is, as it were, massacred because he feels himself of no account.”

Source : Karl Jaspers (2014). “Man in the Modern Age (Routledge Revivals)”, p.91, Routledge
“Hold on to me as we go, as we roll down this unfamiliar road. And although this wave is stringing us along, just know you're not alone, 'cause I'm gonna make this place your home.”
“We knew that we wanted to play heavy music but I hadn't gotten into melody and things like that.”
“Workers in industry are the partners in war of the fighting forces.”
“I thought you had forgotten me.â€ â€œI have spent my life remembering you.”
“For 15 years I was a complete arsehole to a dozen people. I said I would try and make it right with those people, and anybody that gave me an audience, I was there.”
“I went through a period at boarding school when my coaches wanted me to switch to snowboarding because they thought I was no good at skiing. I was too skinny. I had terrible technique. They were saying I should be a snowboarder, and luckily, I resisted.”
“There smites nothing so sharp, nor smelleth so sour as shame.”

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