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“You cannot achieve happiness. Happiness happens and is a transitory stage.”
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“I do not share the pessimism of the age about the novel. They are one of our greatest spiritual, aesthetic and intellectual inventions. As a species it is story that distinguishes us, and one of the supreme expressions of story is the novel. Novels are not content. Nor are they are a mirror to life or an explanation of life or a guide to life. Novels are life, or they are nothing.”
Source : "Man Booker prize-winner Richard Flanagan's acceptance speech in full" by Richard Flanagan, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2014.
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“I love pulling people into concert halls who might not otherwise go and getting their ears tuned.”
Source : Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 21, 2002.
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“Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.... A man full of faith is simply one who has lost (or never had) the capacity for clear and realistic thought. He is not a mere ass: he is actually ill.”
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“It is not enough to show that drug A is better than drug B on the average. One is invited to ask, 'For which people ("& why") is drug A better than drug B, and vice versa? If drug A cures 40% and drug B cures 60%, perhaps the right choice of drug for each person would result in 100% cures.'”
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“It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.”
Source : Agnes Repplier (2015). “Americans and Others”, p.24, Sheba Blake Publishing
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“Be the inner journeys, be the outer travels, all trips elevate man, all voyages lift him up!”
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“Hi. It's Nikki. I'm not here right now because I'm dead.”