"My books depend on someone in danger, putting pieces together and figuring things out. They do a lot of thinking, and that gets lost in the movie."

-- Stephen King

#Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Together Quotes

“Getting the degree meant more to me than an NCAA title, being named All-American or winning an Olympic gold medal.”
“We are the first species to have taken our evolution into our own hands.”
“We preach free enterprise capitalism. We believe in it, we give our lives in war for it, but the closest most of us come to profiting from it are a few miserable shares of stock in a company that doesn't pay large enough dividends to keep a small mouse in cheese. The truth is, most of us are job serfs. At a time when invested capital returns 20 to 30 percent, we have no capital. We only have our wages and salaries, and a debt so high that something like 20c on every dollar we earn is spent to pay off what we owe.”

Source : Nicholas Von Hoffman (1970). “Left at the post”, Crown
“I romanced internally about early death till it was too late to die early ...”

Source : Harriet Martineau, Maria Weston Chapman (2010). “Harriet Martineau's Autobiography”, p.435, Cambridge University Press
“The deeps are cold: In that darkness camaraderie does not hold: Nothing touches but, clutching, devours.”

Source : 1960 'Relic'.
“Our life must answer for our faith.”
“I thought about all of the things that everyone ever says to each other, and how everyone is going to die, whether it's in a millisecond, or days, or months, or 76.5 years, if you were just born. Everything that's born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they're all on fire, and we're all trapped.”
“In a tree there is a spirit of life, a spirit of growth and a spirit of holding its head up.”

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