"I think that it is a part of growing up, learning to control our suffering. I think that when we grow up, and learn that happiness is rare, and passes quickly, we become disillusioned and hurt. And how much we suffer is a mark of how much we have been hurt by this realisation. Suffering, you see, is a kind of anger. We rage against the unfairness, the injustice of our sad and sorry lot."

-- Gregory David Roberts

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“The popular books are the novels, dealing with life under all possible conditions, and they are widely read not only because they are entertaining, but also because they in a measure satisfy an unformulated belief that to see farther, to know all sorts of men, in an indefinite way, is a preparation for better social adjustment--for the remedying of social ills.”
“The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?”
“The only thing that weakens worry is work, so I will be working for Marie Corfield”
“Faith in yourself and faith in God are the key to mastery of fear.”
“The notion that the press was used in the [first Iraq] war is incorrect. The press wanted to be used. It saw itself as part of the war effort.”
“I am proud to kill in the name of God.”
“All the big artists I talk to say that they are trapped in a formula and they are looking for the music of tomorrow.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“He threw his burning cigarette onto our clean living room floor and ground it into the wood with his boot. We were about to become cigarettes.”

Source : Ruta Sepetys (2011). “Between Shades of Gray”, p.18, Penguin

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