"All my characters have got a big slice of me in them. A big piece of me, because it's my dialogue and this is the way I think and talk."

-- Wilbur Smith

#Character Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Pieces Quotes

“I'll never retire from working; I'll keep my life interesting until I drop dead.”
“The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.”
“When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control.”

Source : "Our Culture, What’s Left Of It". Interview with Jamie Glazov, archive.frontpagemag.com. August 31, 2005.
“I really liked watching Bo Jackson run just because of his size and his speed.”

Source : "Jamal Lewis: First and Ten". Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. September 24, 2003.
“People who are employed in a way they don't like - my heart cries for them.”
“The need for sociability induce man to be in touch with his fellow men. However, this need might not ("ne saurait", Fr.) find its full (or complete) satisfaction in the conventional (or superficial, - "conventionnel", Fr.) and deceitful world, in which (or where) everyone is mainly (or mostly) trying to assert oneself in front of others ("devant les autres", Fr.), to appear, and hoping to find in society ("mondaine", Fr.) relationships some advantages for his interest and vanity (or vainglory or conceit", Fr.).”
“But only those who have aims and ambitions for the benefit, not of the individual, but of humankind as a whole can persevere to the end.”
“It was what accidental deaths did to people, made everybody's sea floor irregular and uneven, causing tidal currents to collide, surge upward, thereby resulting in small yet volatile eddies churning at everybody's surface. (In the more dangerous cases, it created a lasting whirlpool in which the strongest swimmers could drown.)”

Source : Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.192, Penguin

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