"Roughing it builds a boy's character, but only certain kinds of roughing it."

-- Margaret Atwood

#Character Quotes #Boys Quotes #Kind Quotes

“all skinny guys with beards are jerks”
“Once someone dreams a dream, it can't just drop out of existence. But if the dreamer can't remember it, what becomes of it? It lives on in Fantastica, deep under earth. There are forgotten dreams stored in many layers. The deeper one digs, the closer they are. All Fantastica rests on a foundation of forgotten dreams.”
“If the storytellers told it true, all stories would end in death.”

Source : George Pelecanos (2010). “The Way Home”, p.282, Hachette UK
“The present is the key to the past”

Source : Charles Lyell (2005). “The Geological Evidence of Man”, p.8, Cosimo, Inc.
“I like golf, hiking, camping, boating and fishing.”
“There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.”
“Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals - With no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.”

Source : 1955 In Newsweek, 24 Jan.
“I'm inspired by playwrights, novelists, poets: The value of language has been a lifelong passion of mine. I enjoy it. I'm good at it.”

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