"It's while writing that suddenly a point of view appears: 'So, that's what I really thought about this thing'. Then it feels part of me."

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Source : "The outsider" by Richard Lea, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2008.

Amelie Nothomb

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“If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight.”
“Sometimes you can learn things from the way a person denies something. The choice of lies can be almost as helpful as the truth.”
“There's no doubt that cable news hosts can say things that the president of the United States shouldn't say, and people can be harsh at you. That doesn't mean you benefit by being harsh back.”

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“I guess destiny is not the path given to us but the path we choose for ourselves.”
“I wish I could have won a lot more tournaments, but I got injured every time I played well.”
“It is better to give blood but receive cash than the other way around.”
“In your morning prayer each new day, ask Heavenly Father to guide you to recognize an opportunity to serve one of His precious children. Then go throughout the day with your heart full of faith and love, looking for someone to help. Stay focused, just like the honeybees focus on the flowers from which to gather nectar and pollen. If you do this, your spiritual sensitivities will be enlarged and you will discover opportunities to serve that you never before realized were possible.”
“Itâ€™s notable that the countries that most pride themselves on their commitment to equality, human rights, and democracy (like the United States and the western European countries) are precisely those that, in the late twentieth century, invented a new status (â€˜illegalâ€™) in order to deprive some of their residents of access to equality, human rights, and democracy.I am honored to lend my name to PICUMâ€™s campaign to end the use of the term â€˜illegalâ€™ and to challenge the whole concept of illegality as a status.”

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