"I realised the amazing power of literature and of the human imagination generally: to make the dead live and to stop the living from dying."

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Ivan KlÃma

#Imagination Quotes #Dying Quotes #Literature Quotes

“Well, the reality of her father was that he was a very diseased alcoholic, who died at the age of 34. And one always has to pause to wonder how much you have to drink to die at 34. And he was a really tragic father. I mean, he was absolutely unreliable. He was absolutely involved with various people. He had outside families, outside children, outside wives. He made his wife's life miserable. And she [Eleanor Roosevelt]ignored all of his faults and retained this sense of him as the perfect father.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Recovering alcoholic guys wake up in the morning, and they have to think of a reason to get up, and then, once they're up, to not have a drink. It's like all these little heroic battles they have that they fight with and against every day of their lives.”
“Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.”
“To live is not breathing it is action.”
“My father was a prosperous hatter-farmer - making hats for the local markets during the winter months, tilling his little ten-acre farm during the summer time.”

Source : Jenkin Lloyd Jones (2016). “An Artilleryman's Civil War Diary (Abridged, Annotated)”, p.4, BIG BYTE BOOKS
“The more you reason the less you create.”
“Nature does not compromise; a pelican is not a compromise between a crow and otter, it is just a pelican. Nature makes no compromises; any inefficient products are recalled to the manufacturer!”
“He who honestly instructs reverences God.”

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