"If there is an abiding theme in 'The Pursuit of Happiness,' it is the idea that you come into the world already shaped by other people's past histories."

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Source : Douglas Kennedy (2010). “The Pursuit of Happiness: A Novel”, p.583, Simon and Schuster

Douglas Kennedy

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“From daydreams on the road there was no waking. He plodded on. He could remember everything of her save her scent. Seated in a theatre with her beside him leaning forward listening to the music. Gold scrollwork and sconces and the tall columnar folds of the drapes at either side of the stage. She held his hand in her lap and he could feel the tops of her stockings through the thin stuff of her summer dress. Freeze this frame. Now call down your dark and your cold and be damned.”
“There hasn't been a true breakdown or effort to break Thai music into genres. They're not into dicing and slicing everything up.”

Source : "An Interview with Alan Bishop". believermag.com. July 1, 2008.
“The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.”
“All this anti-Christian rhetoric that you see coming from the government, all this anti-Christian push, is not really an attack on Christianity. It's an effort to make you realize that God is your government. Your government is God.”
“To be awake is to be alive.”
“That just shows you their type of class and integrity. They claim to be first class and the best organization. It's an embarrassment and it shows the lack of class that they really have.....The Eagles would be undefeated right now with Green Bay's quarterback. We'd probably be in a much better position with him on the team (instead of present Eagles quarterback Donavon McNabb).”
“I see the right, and I approve it too,Condemn the wrong, and yet the wrong pursue.”

Source : Samuel Garth (2017). “Ovid’s Metamorphoses”, p.301, Youcanprint
“The mere lapse of years is not life. To eat, to drink, and sleep; to be exposed to darkness and the light; to pace around in the mill of habit, and turn thought into an instrument of trade-this is not life. Knowledge, truth, love, beauty, goodness, faith, alone can give vitality to the mechanism of existence.”

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