"We tell stories. We tell stories to pass the time, to leave the world for a while, or go more deeply into it. We tell stories to heal the pain of living."

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Source : Niall Williams (2014). “History of the Rain: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014”, p.176, A&C Black

Niall Williams

#Pain Quotes #Stories Quotes #World Quotes

“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.”

Source : Mary Wortley Montagu (2015). “Letters”, p.554, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
“What an exciting super-tomorrow it will be! Americans are today making the greatest scientific developments in our history. That is a promise of new levels of employment, industrial activity and human happiness.”
“The history of the human race is the history of ordinary people who have overcome their fears and accomplished extraordinary things.”
“...weâ€™re just kids growing up on an island, doing bad things in pretty places.”
“I had started at a small startup as a big-company guy. Now I was leaving a big company as a small-startup guy.”

Source : Douglas Edwards (2011). “I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59”, p.559, Penguin UK
“I have nothing to lose, but something to gain.”
“...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.”
“I always thought I was going to die before I was 60.”

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