"I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense."

-- Harold S. Kushner

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“There's nothing wrong with being an anarchist.”
“You remember the Duke of Wellington was talking of the Battle of Waterloo when he said that it was not that the British soldiers were braver than the French soldiers. It was just that they were brave five minutes longer. And in our struggles sometimes that's all it takes-to be brave five minutes longer, to try just a little harder, to not give up on ourselves when everything seems to beg for our defeat.”
“Be true to what you said on paper.”
“At sea, I feel comfortable and I come to rest.”

Source : "Laura Dekker: a heroine for our times" by Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2012.
“Such physical matters were nice, yet, to him, intelligence and passion born of living, the ability to move and be moved by subtleties of the mind and spirit, were what really counted.”
“You get social pressure from your parents, who teach you to pay attention to certain things and not to others. You get it in school.”
“Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.”

Source : Quoted in Oliver Wendell Holmes, Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table (1857 - 1858)
“High-level actors can be all about their close-ups and the size of their trailers. I'd heard these horror stories of how a really powerful actor can come in and change your script.”

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