"But don't forget who you really are. And I'm not talking about your so-called real name. All names are made up by someone else, even the one your parents gave you. You know who you really are. When you're alone at night, looking up at the stars, or maybe lying in your bed in total darkness, you know that nameless person inside you...Your muscles will toughen. So will your heart and soul. That's necessary for survival. But don't lose touch with that person deep inside you, or else you won't really have survived at all."

Source : Louis Sachar (2013). “Stanley Yelnats' Survival Guide to Camp Greenlake”, p.89, A&C Black

Louis Sachar

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“If you've been put in your place long enough you begin to act like the place.”
“Broadway isn't a very big career move. There's no money in it and it doesn't mean anything to your career. It's just a nice little jewel in the crown.”
“One night I was sitting on the bed in my hotel room on Buker Hill, down in the middle of Los Angeles. It was an important night in my life, because I had to make a decision about the hotel. Either I paid up or I got out: that was what the note said, the note the landlady had put under my door. A great problem, deserving acute attention. I solved it by turning out the lights and going to bed.”

Source : John Fante (2014). “The Bandini Quartet: Wait Until Spring, Bandini: The Road to Los Angeles: Ask the Dust: Dreams from Bunker Hill”, p.411, Canongate Books
“The dependence of one people upon another, even for the benefits of legislation, is the deepest source of national weakness.”

Source : Thomas Francis Meagher (1853). “Speeches on the Legislative Independence of Ireland”, p.83
“There, in the depths of sleep, is the communion of the living and the dead.”
“The eyes of childhood are magnifying lenses.”

Source : Edward Teller, Judith Schoolery (2009). “Memoirs: A Twentieth Century Journey in Science and Politics”, p.5, Basic Books
“Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.”
“Here's what happens when you die--you sit in a box and get eaten by worms. I guarantee you that when you die, nothing cool happens.”

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