"But if you have a book that needs urgent reading,' she said, 'then Hakim is your man."

-- Khaled Hosseini

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“You can't evoke great spirits and eat plums at the same time.”
“We don't really have a movie industry; we have a trailer industry. The movie guys make five minutes worth of stuff to get people in the theatre, and eighty-five minutes of filler.”
“I found it to be more challenging to be in a huge effects movie, because a lot of the things aren't there.You have to trust the director and react to nothing.”
“A lot of stuff in Wikipedia is not true, and that goes for a lot of people. I sometimes think, "How can that happen?" But Wikipedia is maintained by people, and everybody can add stuff to it.”

Source : Source: www.bullz-eye.com
“Listen more than you talk. Nobody learned anything by hearing themselves speak.”
“In a city this size, every year, hundreds of husbands walk away. Kids leave home. Wives escape. People disappear.”
“I did not want to move. For I had the feeling that this was a place, once seen, that could not be seen again. If I left and then came back, it would not be the same; no matter how many times I might return to this particular spot the place and feeling would never be the same, something would be lost or something would be added, and there never would exist again, through all eternity, all the integrated factors that made it what it was in this magic moment.”

Source : Clifford D. Simak (2011). “Cemetery World”, p.22, Hachette UK
“. . .nothing is more important than freedom. Nothing is more sacred than freedom. Nothing is greater than freedom. Nothing. . .can be permitted to stand in the way of freedom. Freedom. . .is all that makes men great. It is all men have to live for. Without freedom, what good is life?”

Source : Roy Wilkins, Tom Mathews (1982). “Standing Fast: The Autobiography of Roy Wilkins”, Viking Adult

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