"All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth."

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Source : Wally Lamb (2012). “She's Come Undone”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

Wally Lamb

#Knives Quotes #Shade Quotes #World Quotes

“Chaos claims the unwary or the incomplete. A true man may flinch away its embrace, if he is stalwart, and he girds his soul with the armour of contempt.”
“There's so little difference between television and features as far as you make the film. I mean, you have less money and it's a little quicker, but the concept is all on television.”
“Every established order tends to produce the naturalization of its own arbitrariness.”

Source : Pierre Bourdieu (1977). “Outline of a Theory of Practice”, p.115, Cambridge University Press
“People say it's a movie about boxing, but... I don't agree at all. I don't think it's a movie about boxing. Boxing is like a platform. It's just a stage where this is played out.”
“Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!”
“Thus one memory follows another until the waves dash together over our heads, and a deep sigh swells the breast, which warns us that we have forgotten to breathe in the midst of these pure thoughts.”
“People fear anyone who differs from what is considered normal, and in a small town the idea of normal can be as narrow as the streets.”
“No matter how we suffer, we have an obligation to others. We have to be unselfish enough to try to live in the right way, so others can get through their own lives without us fouling them up.”

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