"But if you couldn't do everything, did that mean you did nothing?"

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Source : Guy Gavriel Kay (2010). “Under Heaven”, p.17, Penguin

Guy Gavriel Kay

“What people don't realize is that China papered over its last two credit bubbles, those in 1999 and 2004. The banks were never bailed out - they just exchanged their bad loans for questionable bonds from quasi-state organizations.”
“I must quit marrying men who feel inferior to me. Somewhere there must be a man who could be my husband and not feel inferior.”
“A fighter's dream is to win a world title and gain financial stability. But what is happening to me now is the most humbling experience of my life. It is a great honor for me to be the face of my people and to let everyone know we are a small but mighty country. I have great pride for all of the Filipinos living throughout the world and it is these people that I fight for each and every time I step into the ring.”
“Cillian Murphy is the guy who battled viral zombies in '28 Days Later' and put a gas-spewing bag over his head in 'Batman Begins'. With his pallor, cut-glass cheekbones and glazed blue eyes, he's right on the border between dreamboat and spooky freak.”
“And from the phlox and mignonette Rich attars drift on every hand; And when star-vestured twilight comes The pale moths weave a saraband. And crickets in the aisles of grass With their clear fifing pierce the hush; And somewhere you many hear anear The passion of the hermit thrush.”
“Stupidity exceeds and undercuts materiality, runs loose, wins a few rounds, recedes, gets carried home in a clutch of denial-and returns. Essentially linked to the inexhaustible, stupidity is also that which fatigues knowledge and wears down history.”

Source : Avital Ronell (2002). “Stupidity”, p.3, University of Illinois Press
“If you dig a pit for others to fall into, you will fall into it yourself.”
“Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.”

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