"My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle."

-- Lech Walesa

#Country Quotes #War Quotes #Struggle Quotes

“I invite people to examine their lives without negativity, knowing that it's scary, but that not doing it is even scarier.”
“I do have to earn a living, so I'm conscious of probable reactions from readers, but the most important one is still the awareness that if I'm not enjoying a story, the reader won't either.”

Source : Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. January 17, 2003.
“But the years came and went without bringing the careless boy; and when they met again Wendy was a married woman, and Peter was no more to her than a little dust in the box in which she had kept her toys.”
“Where can you go from nowhere, except deeper into nowhere?”

Source : Aleksandar Hemon (2008). “The Lazarus Project”, p.122, Penguin
“We're all immortal until we die.”
“But some secrets are too delicious not to share.”
“Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself when apparent to the eyes ; and we find the burden of anxiety greater, by much, than the evil which we are anxious about : ...”

Source : Daniel Defoe (1822). “The life and adventures of Robinson Crusoe: who was shipwrecked on an uninhabited island, near the mouth of the great river Oroonoque, where he resided twenty-eight years. With an account of his travels through various parts of the world”, p.103
“If we take the freedom to put a friend under our microscope, we thereby insulate him from many of his true relations, magnify his peculiarities, inevitably tear him into parts, and, of course, patch him very clumsily together again. What wonder, then, should we be frightened by the aspect of a monster.”

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