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“By now you know what I liked most was the hunt, the challenge of what the thing was. The killing for me was secondary. I got no rise as such out of it... for the most part. But the figuring it out, the challenge -- the stalking and doing it right, successfully -- that excited me a lot. The greater the odds against me, the more juice I got out of it.”
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“In real life I'm very low-key. A wallflower. One of the reasons I went into comedy and acting was that I was sick of being shy.”
Source : "Jemaine Clement: 'I was in a public park replicating gay porn pics in my underpants'". Interview Killian Fox, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2010.
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“You can never enslave somebody who knows who he is.”
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“I'm not like a car you can fix up. I'm never gonna run right" Bella”
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“Joy and life exist nowhere but the present.”
Source : Maxine Hong Kingston (2011). “I Love a Broad Margin To My Life”, p.113, Random House
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“In order to know the light, we must first experience the darkness.”
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“There are those who do not hold that there is any innate goodness to mankind. To them I say, had you lived my life, you would not believe it. I have known the depths to which mortals are capable of descending, and I have seen the heights. I have seen how kindness and compassion may grow in the unlikeliest of places, as the mountain flower forces its way through the stern rock.”
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“Life is a flimsy branch over an abyss.”
Source : Henning Mankell (2013). “Italian Shoes: A Novel”, p.11, The New Press