"For the first time I noticed - as I would notice repeatedly during my ordeal, between one throe of agony and the next - that my suffering was taking place in a grand setting. I saw my suffering for what it was, finite and insignificant, and I was still. My suffering did not fit anywhere, I realized. And I could accept this. It was all right."

-- Yann Martel

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“The catcher is in the middle of everything. He sees it best.”
“The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.”

Source : Address in Reply to His Majesty's Most Gracious Speech, hansard.millbanksystems.com. November 01, 1950.
“I think we take it for granted that if you are with your husband after 30 years, then he is the love of your life.”
“Things changeâ€¦things happenâ€¦things you canâ€™t even imagine when youâ€™re young and full of hope.”
“Sometimes I post quotes on Twitter.”
“I wanted to be an actor and I wanted to be a performer. Like Hugh [Grant] said earlier, we might all have this weird gene. Hopefully I will continue to have the talent to allow that gene to play itself out for as long as it can.”
“Sleep does make us all equal, it seems to me, like his big brother-Death.”

Source : Arthur Schnitzler (1982). “Plays and Stories: Arthur Schnitzler”, p.112, A&C Black
“I certainly think that many of the themes, and many of the ways that I wrote about Congo, will continue to live on in my work. One of the fundamental aspects of my work is for myself and the reader to see the world that they think they know in a different way.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

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