"I'm an incurable romantic. The essence of romance is an unshakable conviction that next time will be different."

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Source : Glen Cook (2010). “The Many Deaths of the Black Company”, p.747, Macmillan

Glen Cook

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“Allah made us all a different shade and colour. Nations and tribes recognize one another! 'Cause every single person is your sister and brother.”

Source : "Song: 'Colours of Islam' ('Colours of Islam')". 1998.
“And I would like current or future politicians to make sure every avenue of diplomacy, and what you have, are exhausted before sending young men and women off to death and serious injury.”
“With 'Good Will Hunting,' Miramax made certain the recruited audience wasn't expecting to laugh at Robin Williams like they normally do. From my limited experience, you can really blow test screenings by conducting them in the wrong way.”
“I've taken stuff from people, too. You know though, if you steal from one person, you're just a thief. But if you steal from everyone, that's research.”

Source : "The new cool cat on the block" by Dino Scatena, www.smh.com.au. April 16, 2004.
“I don't believe that classical architecture is enough to engage people anymore. They say: 'So what else is new?'”
“Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.”
“People here are funny. They work so hard at living, they forget how to live.”
“Perhaps the sad and empty language that today's flabby humanity pours forth, will, in all its horror, in all its boundless absurdity, re-echo in the heart of a solitary man who is awake, and then perhaps that man, suddenly realizing that he does not understand, will begin to understand.”

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