"The one thing worse than an enemy is a friend turned false."

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Source : Philip Reeve (2011). “Here Lies Arthur”, p.172, Scholastic UK

Philip Reeve

“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.”
“It's really difficult to get good information, and there's a reason for that. They're not letting journalists in. Whenever something really bad is happening, we always are dealing with uncertain information. Certainly what is happening there is qualitatively different from what happening in Abyei.”
“I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.”
“He who cannot howl will not find his pack.”

Source : Charles Simic (1990). “Selected Poems, 1963-1983”, George Braziller
“As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can.”
“There is something childish and legalistic about churches in which all of the saints observe precisely the same standards. When all lives begin to sink into the same mould of denial and exercise of liberty, something is amiss.”
“Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?”
“Things which do not require effort of some sort are seldom worth having.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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