"The professional arsonist builds vacant lots for money."

-- Jimmy Breslin

#Arsonists Quotes #Vacant Quotes

“There is also something deeply lovely about uncertainty: the possibility of optimism.”

Source : "7 Truths Women Have To Learn The Hard Way" by Joan Wickersham, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 7, 2013.
“I write, but I don't write poetry. I don't rhyme or anything like that.”
“Never, if you can possibly help it, write a novel. It is, in the first place, a thoroughly unsocial act. It makes one obnoxious to one's family and to one's friends. One sits about for many weeks, months, even years, in the worst cases, in a state of stupefaction.”
“Great knowledge brings great sorrow.”

Source : Sergei Lukyanenko (2006). “Night Watch”, Miramax
“You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.”

Source : Peter Abrahams (1965). “A night of their own”
“None of us can ever save himself; we are the instruments of one anotherâ€™s salvation, and only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves out of the darkness into light.”
“People shouldn't be treated like objects. They aren't that valuable.”
“Love doesn't happen in an instant. It creeps up on you and then it turns your life upside-down. It colours your waking moments and fills your dreams. You begin to walk on air and see life in brilliant new shades. But it also brings with it a sweet agony, a delicious torture.”

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