"In descriptions of Nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture. For instance, you'll have a moonlit night if you write that on the mill dam a piece of glass from a broken bottle glittered like a bright little star, and that the black shadow of a dog or a wolf rolled past like a ball."

-- Anton Chekhov

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“We shall be judged by what we do, not by how we felt while we were doing it.”

Source : Review of Altona, by Jean-Paul Sartre, in 1961. "Tynan Right and Left: Plays, Films, People, Places and Events". Book by Kenneth Tynan, p. 97, 1967.
“I'm a risk manager, but I'm also a risk taker.”

Source : Source: www.realclearpolitics.com
“Grief is neither a disorder nor a healing process; it is a sign of health itself, a whole and natural gesture of love. Nor must we see grief as a step toward something better. No matter how much it hurts-and it may be the greatest pain in life-grief can be an end in itself, a pure expression of love.”
“Children of those who have been incarcerated are five times more likely to go to prison than children of parents who have never been incarcerated. The sins of the father visiting the child.”
“Our character is basically a composite of our habits.”
“I had always wanted to be on TV; my mom told me that when I was little, I told her I wanted to be a 'modeler,' because that's what I called actors on TV.”
“All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a woman.”
“Yeah, we were in the game, until Jesus made me fumble. He hates our team.”

Source : "Comedy Central Presents: Jeff Stilson". Documentary, Comedy, 2003.

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