"My story follows a very classic tragic paradigm in which you learn things too late for them to be of any use, and by keeping silent about the thing that you're terrified of, you bring it about - and even worse."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Marco Roth

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“There is no such thing as absolute truth and absolute falsehood. The scientific mind should never recognise the perfect truth or the perfect falsehood of any supposed theory or observation. It should carefully weigh the chances of truth and error and grade each in its proper position along the line joining absolute truth and absolute error.”
“When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.”
“A touch less ego and dash more humility will improve the quality of anything you turn your hand to.”
“I don't know about you, but my girlfriends have been my girlfriends forever, and they're my sisters and my family.”
“So lonely I make friends with the ravens that prey on lambs.”

Source : Hannah Kent (2013). “Burial Rites”, p.110, Pan Macmillan
“I studied cooking in Spain after college.”

Source : "Jose Garces, ‘Iron Chef’ Star, Finds The Latino Road To A Thanksgiving Celebration" by Zuania Ramos, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 22, 2012.
“Sometimes we have dreams, but we just can't make them. That's normal.”
“Those who would be called tyrants cannot be called free men.”

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