"Given that we can live only a small part of what there is in us -- what happens with the rest?"

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Source : Pascal Mercier (2009). “Night Train To Lisbon”, p.28, Atlantic Books Ltd

Pascal Mercier

“I tried Botox, but I don't want to be hooked on that stuff.”
“All the songs we do are basically about one of three things: booze, sex or rock n roll.”
“And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.”
“Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family; a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote, of sound maxims and truthful apothegms. It will impress on your own mind a thousand valuable suggestions, and teach your children a thousand lessons of truth and duty. Such a book is a casket of jewels for your housebold.”
“I don't want to be Marilyn Monroe. In many ways, that's a good comparison. Because Marilyn Monroe was a sexpot, all that stuff that I have no interest in. For me, it's much easier to just try to make people laugh than to try to be the hottest thing in the world.”

Source : "Fashion, food and fun are dear to Amanda Bynes". Interview with Tali Yahalom, usatoday30.usatoday.com. August 22, 2007.
“Often we don't notice the stringent rules to which our culture subjects us.”
“One reason, of course, as a Christian, I believe the Bible is the word of God. I take the Bible as the standard.”
“Luck is predictable; the harder you work, the luckier you get.”

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