"Sometimes there's no point in giving up."

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Source : "The Ringworld Engineers". Book by Larry Niven, 1980.

Larry Niven

#Giving Up Quotes #Giving Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“One can never have too many books.”

Source : "8 Questions With: Reed Krakoff". Interview with Laurie Brookins, gotham-magazine.com. March 8, 2011.
“It takes a well-spent lifetime, and perhaps more, to crystalize in us that for which we exist.”

Source : Jean Toomer (2003). “The Uncollected Works of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967”, Edwin Mellen Press
“I found it very difficult to explain to someone why you did a film. It's not like having a conversation.”
“If sound is music and came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound. If the sound is effective, it should actually have a chemical - some sort of physiological - effect on the listener, so he doesn't have to hear that sound again.”
“There is no need to make spirituality a part of education. If you make education non-imposing and non-suppressive, people are naturally spiritual.”
“Perhaps it was only that when you try to put it into words you cannot express it truly, it never sounds as you dream it.”

Source : Jeff Shaara, Michael Shaara (2012). “The Civil War Trilogy 3-Book Boxset (Gods and Generals, The Killer Angels, and The Last Full Measure)”, p.437, Ballantine Books
“America’s one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.”
“The true artist does not create art as an end in itself; he creates art for human beings. Humanity is the goal.”

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