"The gloom encroaches upon my mind, and my heart flutters like a bird held fast in a fist."

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Source : Hannah Kent (2013). “Burial Rites”, p.110, Pan Macmillan

Hannah Kent

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“There is nothing that we are enduring that Jesus does not understand, and He waits for us to go to our Heavenly Father in prayer. If we will be obedient and if we are diligent, our prayers will be answered, our problems will diminish, our fears will dissipate, light will come upon us, the darkness of despair will be dispersed, and we will be close to the Lord.”
“Imagine a survivor of a failed civilization with only a tattered book on aromatherapy for guidance in arresting a cholera epidemic. Yet, such a book would more likely be found amid the debris than a comprehensible medical text.”
“Theater of Cruelty means a theater difficult and cruel for myself first of all. And, on the level of performance, it is not the cruelty we can exercise upon each other by hacking at each otherâ€™s bodies, carving up our personal anatomies, or, like Assyrian emperors, sending parcels of human ears, noses, or neatly detached nostrils through the mail, but the much more terrible and necessary cruelty which things can exercise against us. We are not free. And the sky can still fall on our heads. And the theater has been created to teach us that first of all.”

Source : Antonin Artaud (1958). “The Theater and Its Double”, p.79, Grove Press
“Power is different when you combined it with wisdom. Wisdom allows you to use less power to accomplish more tasks.”
“I believe I'm doing the right thing in trying to step away from that and to take chances and work on little independent films and do stuff like that wild dance scene.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I am so thankful and appreciative of being a part of this franchise and playing in front of the best fans in the NFL. I will be back.”

Source : Statement from Chiefs Safety Eric Berry, www.chiefs.com. November 24, 2014.
“We see that Pakistan is continuing to provide safe harbor havens inside of Pakistan for terrorists who present risks to the United States of America. We are doing our best to inform the Pakistanis that that is no longer going to be acceptable. So this- this conditioned aid, we've given them a chance. If they fix this problem, we're happy to continue to engage with them and be their partner. But if they don't, we're going to protect America.”
“We are all guilty in someone's eyes. More so our own.”

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