"It can be a little difficult to command attention when surrounded by lunatics,"

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Source : Adam Foulds (2009). “The Quickening Maze”, p.17, Random House

Adam Foulds

#Attention Quotes #Littles Quotes #Difficult Quotes

“Basically, to sum up: We're a generation of anarchists, and we just haven't gotten our hands on the means of production yet so we can fetter the wheels. We haven't been handed the controls yet except to the Internet, which is why it looks like it does.”

Source : "An Afternoon with Mark Pesce: The Uncut Version". Interview with Gregory Pleshaw, en.wikiquote.org.
“We might say that both the artist and theneurotic bite off more than they can chew, but the artist spews it back out again and chews it over in an objectified way, as an exÂternal, active, work project...”

Source : Ernest Becker (1997). “The Denial of Death”, p.184, Simon and Schuster
“What, did you think," she asked, laughing as he struggled up the bank, "that I, a Gaulish maiden, could not swim?" "I did not think anything about it," Malchus said; "I saw you pushed in and followed without thinking at all." Although they imperfectly understood each other's words the meaning was clear; the girl put her hand on his shoulder and looked frankly up in his face. "I thank you," she said, "just the same as if you had saved my life. You meant to do so, and it was very good of you, a great chief of this army, to hazard your life for a Gaulish maiden. Clotilde will never forget.”

Source : G. A. Henty (2016). “The Young Carthaginian: A Story of the Times of Hannibal”, p.213, The Floating Press
“If I had known that this movie would bring so much craziness, I don't know if I would have said 'yes' to the Twilight Saga. I never asked to be a poster-boy.”
“I'm not the next anyone, I'm the first Maria Sharapova”
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”

Source : Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.340, Penguin
“The commitments we make to ourselves and to others, and our integrity to those commitments, is the essence and clearest manifestation of our proactivity.”
“One hand washes the other...both hands wash the face.”

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