"In Russia one can be as pure as can be and still lose everything in a flash and end up in prison."

-- Vladimir Sorokin

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“If it's me against 48, I feel sorry for the 48.”
“Life - give me life until the end, That at the very top of being, The battle-spirit shouting in my blood, Out of the reddest hell of the fight I may be snatched and flung Into the everlasting lull, The immortal, incommunicable dream.”

Source : William Ernest Henley (1893). “London Voluntaries ; The Song of the Sword, and Other Verses”, London : D. Nutt
“It's not the failures in our life that define us, it's the moments when we decide that getting back up is all that matters”

Source : Twitter post from May 19, 2014
“All my friends make really small, naturalistic, dialogue-heavy movies, so I'm kind of used to that. I didn't want my movie to be rambly and I didn't want it to be cutesy, or quirky, or clever.”
“Killing with the point lacks artistry, but don't let that hold your hand when the opening presents itself.”
“Magicians are definitely more arrogant. They're kind of like "Abra Kadabra, you're an idiot," they don't let you in on the joke. Comedians, you're always in on the joke unless it's Andy Kaufman.”
“With all of the hysteria, all of the fear, all of the phony science, could it be that man-made global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people? It sure sounds like it.”

Source : "Politics Reasserts Itself in the Debate Over Climate Change and Its Hazards" by Andrew C. Revkin, www.nytimes.com. August 05, 2003.
“The military lead turbulent lives, but they are people like everybody else.”

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