"Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey."

-- Raymond Queneau

#Character Quotes #Historical Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“I pray that no child of mine would ever descend into such a place as a library. They are indeed most dangerous places and unfortunate is she or he who is lured into such a hellhole of enjoyment, stimulus, facts, passion and fun.”
“Communication is so much better when people are vulnerable.”
“The one thing that I'm absolutely sure about is that the people of Gaza aren't going anywhere. And neither are the people of Israel.”

Source : "Ross Kemp sheds dim light on Middle East" by Jim Shelley, www.mirror.co.uk. January 4, 2010.
“When somebody turned me on to a Coltrane record around seventh grade, I took up saxophone.”
“I have heard that one can conquer the empire on horseback, but one cannot govern it on horseback.”
“In not my, but our collective hands, is held the promise of change.”
“Marijuana gives rise to insanity -- not in its users but in the policies directed against it. A nation that sentences the possessor of a single joint to life imprisonment without parole but sets a murderer free after perhaps six years is in the grips of a deep psychosis.”
“The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.”

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