"It turned out that some crooked things looked even worse when straightened. Some tangled knots only made sense once unraveled."

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Source : Hugh Howey (2013). “Wool”, p.479, Simon and Schuster

Hugh Howey

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“I consider myself to be a true friend of the Israeli people. But I define friendship as someone who takes care of a friend, who just doesn't use or exploit a friend. And, you know, there's that old adage: 'Friends don't let friends drive drunk'.”

Source : Speech at New York Ethical Culture Society, 2006.
“And it was this image that was stamped on the hearts and minds of all who were present that day. Of Froi of the Exiles holding the future of Lumatere in his hands.”
“I always wear blue shirts and I like wine or purple ties.”
“I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico... not so much the music, but the spirit.”
“Tea is also a sort of spiritual refreshment, an elixir of clarity and wakeful tranquility.”
“I've never been very interested in literary narrative in movies, it always seems an obligatory trait and the least interesting of all the things film can do. It forces us to look through the thing instead of at it, it teaches us to ignore our senses and look for meaning outside the immediate world of our experience.”
“Why does nothing change, even when you set out for a faraway place?”

Source : Young-ha Kim (2007). “I Have the Right to Destroy Myself”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.”

Source : Evelyn Underhill, Carol Poston (2010). “The Making of a Mystic: New and Selected Letters of Evelyn Underhill”, p.273, University of Illinois Press

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