"The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship"

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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#Hatred Quotes #Fruit Quotes

“There is stuff I would have liked to have done. But there are no sour grapes.”
“Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.”

Source : Jim Morrison (1989). “Wilderness”, Vintage
“I donâ€™t like to lie â€“ so thereâ€™d better be a good reason why Iâ€™m doing it.”
“My main interest... is the love of truth, whether pleasant or not. Truth is self-sufficient, and there is nothing to which it can be subordinated without loss. When truth is made subservient to anything else, however great (say religion), it becomes impure and sordid.”

Source : George Sarton (1952). “A History of Science: Ancient science through the Golden Age of Greece”
“I guess it was easier for me to find my voice in poetry than it was in fiction. I'm working on fiction again, and I find it a lot more difficult. It's a struggle. At a certain point, you have your voice and you go to it every time, so it's not like reinventing the wheel. That's the way I see it at least.”
“We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are. Which leads me to my second point: writers do not write what they want, they write what they can.”
“Few people ever kill for the right reasons, June. Most do it for the wrong reasons. I just hope you never have to be in either category.”

Source : Marie Lu (2011). “Legend”, p.250, Penguin
“Perhaps most ridiculous of all is the suggestion that we 'keep' our radioactive garbage for the use of our descendants. This 'solution', I think, requires an immediate poll of the next 20,000 generations.”

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