"Looking back, the way I see it, there was something slightly deluded about my belief - what that meant to me - but with that delusion came of lot of happiness. Life was really black and white: if you do these things now, God will you invite you to his house where you will love forever and everything will be happy forever. That's what I believed, and that makes life pretty sweet. I do miss it."

-- Michaela Coel

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“Cannibals? Who is not a cannibal? I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted down a lean missionary in his cellar against a coming famine; it will be more tolerable for that provident Fejee, I say, in the day of judgement, than for thee, civilized and enlightened gourmand, who nailest geese to the ground and feastest on their bloated livers in thy pate de fois gras.”
“In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense.”

Source : Kate Atkinson (2013). “Behind the Scenes at the Museum: A Novel”, p.379, St. Martin's Press
“Fame is O.K. I hate it, but it's O.K. I'm beginning to understand how I can be hidden. It's an attitude.”

Source : "Romain Duris: 'I don't want to be Hollywood's poor little Frenchman'". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2011.
“No reputable economist anywhere believes it's gambling an economic tool”
“Peoples do not judge in the same way as courts of law; they do not hand down sentences, they throw thunderbolts; they do not condemn kings, they drop them back into the void; and this justice is worth just as much as that of the courts.”

Source : Maximilien Robespierre (2007). “Virtue and Terror”, New Left Books
“I have been a conspirator for so long that I mistrust all around me.”
“You're going to find Tigerstar. Against that fiend, every cat is helpless.”
“The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete.”

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