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“Angels play a very active role in the purposes of God and the affairs of men, but do not control human events or violate the free will of human beings.”
Source : Gary Kinnaman (1994). “Angels Dark and Light”
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“Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found.”
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“There is usually no dreamer so unworldly as the anthologist. He wanders in a vast garden, lost in wonder, unable to decide often between flowers of equal loveliness. ... The true anthologist has the greatest difficulty in finishing his book. There is always just one more, a new, delicious discovery.”
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“When passion is not fed, it changes to need. At this juncture, marriage becomes a fixed idea in the mind of the bourgeois, being the only means whereby he can win a woman and appropriate her to his uses.”
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“Papa's love did indeed have wondrous properties: it not only compensated for her boredom and anxiety, it was the cause of her boredom and anxiety.”
Source : Vivian Gornick (2005). “Fierce Attachments: A Memoir”, p.23, Macmillan
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“For every guy, there is an opportunity to be a lot better than he thought he could be. We can't all be the star of the team, but we can be a star in our life. That's where you set your goal.”
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“To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.”
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“Men make their own history; but they make it under given conditions, and they become entangled thereby in a fate which is in part the result of other men having made their own history earlier.”
Source : Reinhard Bendix (1990). “Force, Fate, and Freedom: On Historical Sociology”, p.49, Univ of California Press
