"While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story."

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Source : Jeffrey Archer (2012). “The New Collected Short Stories”, p.374, Pan Macmillan

Jeffrey Archer

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“Large men in black plate mail with red cloaks and plumes don't sneak worth a damn.”

Source : Tanya Huff (2011). “Nights of the Round Table: And Other Stories of Heroic Fantasy”, p.124, Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
“Sorrow is God's plowshare that turns up and subsoils the depths of the soul, that it may yield richer harvests. If we had never fallen, or were in a glorified state, then the strong torrents of Divine joy would be the normal force to open up all our souls' capacities; but in a fallen world, sorrow, with despair taken out of it, is the chosen power to reveal ourselves to ourselves. Hence it is sorrow that makes us think deeply, long, and soberly.”
“Difficult struggle in mountaineering is our rise above himself, is the voice of freedom.”
“When Pinterest works well, it helps you find things that are meaningful to you. We want to build a system that helps you do that.”

Source : "Ben Silbermann, Pinterest Founder And CEO, Talks Criticism, Fears". Interview with Sara Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 27, 2012.
“Fortunately science, like that nature to which it belongs, is neither limited by time nor by space. It belongs to the world, and is of no country and no age. The more we know, the more we feel our ignorance; the more we feel how much remains unknown...”

Source : Humphry Davy (1840). “The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy (etc.)”, p.88
“A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.”
“I don't have any social media. I'm pretty clueless, but I guess I did it would probably be something around food.”
“There's still a massive inequality between the genders. If you look at the trajectory of a male actor's career, there's no hesitation or hiatus. But women after the age of 35 to 40 are rarely placed in the centre of the story.”

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