"For each of us, the only hope resides in his own efforts, in completing his own story, not in the other's interpretation. (63)"

-- Sheldon B. Kopp

#Effort Quotes #Stories Quotes #Interpretation Quotes

“Bad movies are when people go, 'oh, I wasted $10 bucks and 2 hours and I don't even want to go back again.'”
“I wonder, what's in a book while it's closed. Oh, I know it's full of letters printed on paper, but all the same, something must be happening, because as soon as I open it, there's a whole story with people I don't know yet and all kinds of adventures, deeds and battles. And sometimes there are storms at sea, or it takes you to strange cities and countries. All those things are somehow shut in a book. Of course you have to read it to find out. But it's already there, that's the funny thing. I just wish I knew how it could be.”
“I want everybody to worship the God of love instead of worshipping the God of hate and torture. But in the meantime we don't want to force Jesus Christ on anybody and look that we are trying to force our beliefs onto other.”
“Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.”
“We all need that extra friend outside of our immediate family to talk about that extra stuff you wouldn't normally talk to your parents about.”
“Rather than bringing me closer to others, the time that I spend online isolates me from the most important people in my life, my family, my friends, my neighbourhood, my community.”
“I think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to the complete opposite and confusing people.”
“British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone spent his declining years trying to guess the answer to the Irish Question; unfortunately, whenever he was getting warm, the Irish secretly changed the Question.”

Source : 1066 and All That ch. 57 (1930). Coauthored with R. J. Yeatman.

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