"Easy writings curse is hard reading."

-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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“Even when the universe made it quite clear to me that I was mistaken in my certainties ... I did not break. The shattering of my sureties did not shatter me.”
“I think everybody who puts on a uniform for their country is a hero.”

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“Positioned on my dresser, that white-as-snow rose is a personal message to me. It speaks of unfinished business. It whispers, I can find you. I can reach you. Perhaps I am watching you now.”
“Just like becoming an expert in wine, you learn by drinking it, the best you can afford.”
“In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.”
“There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.”

Source : Guy de Maupassant (2015). “Maupassant Complete Short Stories: Works of Maupassant”, p.981, 谷月社
“I am reminded, now, of Leonardo's advice to painters: You should fix your eyes, he says, on certain walls stained with damp. You will see in these the likenesses of divine landscapes, adorned with mountains, ruins, rocks, extensive plains; and you will see there battles and strange figures engaged in violent actions. For in such walls the same thing happens as in the sound of church bells, in whose reverberations you may find every word imaginable.”

Source : Ciaran Carson (2001). “Shamrock Tea”, Granta Books
“So to be standing here, this was really, truly, honestly never part of anything we even imagined in our wildest dreams.”

Source : Mark Boal's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. March 7, 2010.

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