"I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing."

-- Manuel Puig

#Occupation Quotes #Novel Quotes #Great French Quotes

“I truly believe that everything happens for a reason. So you asked, â€˜When things get really, really difficult in your life, what keeps you going?â€™ For me, itâ€™s always that the most difficult moments in my life, the moments in which I believe Iâ€™ve completely failed or hit bottom, I can actually directly link them to something later that is either a true success or a dream come true. So, I do believe that if you can maintain that everything happens for a reason, you can find the strength and the lesson in those difficult moments and grow stronger.”
“The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.”
“It is important not to let emotions get in the way of cold, hard, calculated military planning. Emotions may win arguments, but they don't win wars.”

Source : "Secretary Kerry, Mr. Obama, emotions may win arguments, but they don't win wars" by Kathleen Troia McFarland, www.foxnews.com. August 30, 2013.
“However you disguise slavery, it is slavery still. Its chains, though wreathed with roses, not only fasten on the body but rivet on the mind.”
“Reading is the journey of those who can not take the train”
“Out of the red and silver and the long cry of alarm to the poet who survives in all human beings, as the child survives in him; to this poet she threw an unexpected ladder in the middle of the city and ordained, 'Climb!”
“The mother is the early care giver and primary source of identification for all children.... A daughter continues to identify with the mother”
“Music is therapy for me. It's my outlet for every negative thing I've ever been through. It lets me turn something bad into something beautiful.”

Source : "Evanescence: Amy Lee Explains the New Songs". VH1 News, September 18, 2006.

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