"It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice. But the sad fact is, most people don't look beneath the surface until it's too late."

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Source : Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Flipped”, p.112, Knopf Books for Young Readers

Wendelin Van Draanen

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“There is no doubt that our nation's security and defeating terrorism trump all other priorities.”
“When you are sitting in a room and somebody does something or says something and a thought comes, an idea or a melody - you have to just grab it while it's there because it will go away.”

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“The best thing for the inside of a man, is the outside of a horse.”
“My whole life, I've been telling jokes.”
“Property should be in a general sense common, but as a general rule private... In well-ordered states, although every man has his own property, some things he will place at the disposal of his friends, while of others he shares the use of them.”
“You rest now. Rest for longer than you are used to resting. Make a stillness around you, a field of peace. Your best work, the best time of your life will grow out of this peace.”

Source : Peter Heller (2014). “The Painter: A novel”, p.44, Vintage
“I think it's dangerous to get into ideas of planning careers.”
“The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man--burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray.”

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