"A singular disadvantage of the sea lies in the fact that after successfully surmounting one wave you discover another behind it just as important and just as nervously anxious to do something effective in the way of swamping boats. In a ten-foot dinghy one can get an idea of the resources of the sea in the line of waves that is not probable to the average experience, which is never at sea in a dinghy."

-- Stephen Crane

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“Acting is attached to almost everyone in Los Angeles. Everyone has stars in their eyes when they come out here. I have an expression... it's like if you turn to the left and if you turn the right; if they're not an actor, you are. It's essentially true.”

Source : Source: www.ign.com
“You can see a lot about our mission on our website, but the basic idea is that the church believes that understanding human beings and the Earth requires not only faith but also reason, and not only philosophical reason but also scientific reason.”
“A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.”

Source : "1001 Affirmations" - by Herbert P. Windschitl - Poetry, 2003.
“If I didn't have writing, I'd be running down the street hurling grenades in people's faces.”
“I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.”
“It is the English, not their Government; for if they were not blind cowards, they would lynch Chamberlain and Halifax and all the other smarmy traitors.”

Source : "Like the Roman. The Life of Enoch Powell" by Simon Heffer, (p. 53), 1999.
“Before the eighth grade, I probably went to seven or eight different schools.”
“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.”

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