"Life is simply experience; for reasons not readily discerned, we attempt to go on."

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Source : Scott Turow (2013). “Presumed Innocent”, p.118, Pan Macmillan

Scott Turow

#Goes On Quotes #Life Is Quotes #Reason Quotes

“Daniel Radcliffe was actually a fan of the show and excited to be on it. Some of it is we've gone long enough that we're legitimate. Even if they don't know the show, they know we are a show and not some weird thing that's going to go away. Also, the more celebrities we get on BoJack show, the more it feels like a club to be in: "If Naomi Watts will make a fool of herself, I guess I can make a fool of myself, too."”
“I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.”
“Let the League of Nations say whatever it pleases, let America offer whatever interference, let China decry Japan's action at the top of her voice, but Japan must adhere to her course unswervingly.”

Source : "China and America" by Foster Rhea Dulles, (p. 200), 1981.
“People are under the impression that dictionaries legislate language. What a dictionary does is keep track of usages over time.”
“I have nobody. I have surrounded myself with people who are fake just because I need to talk to somebody.”
“At different points in my life, I had grappled with the idea of going into the priesthood - in high school or law school. Where it ends, I'm not quite sure. Perhaps it ends with death, grappling with one's spirituality.”
“Male-female fusion does not create women's rights. It creates a fusion of rights.”
“A story is a burden which must be carried with as much care as we carry a sleeping child”

Source : Joseph Bruchac (1996). “Roots of Survival: Native American Storytelling and the Sacred”, Fulcrum Pub

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