"Today's Gypsies, who have lived in Prague for only two generations, light a ritual fire wherever they work, a nomads' fire crackling only for the joy of it, a blaze of rough-hewn wood like a child's laugh, a symbol of the eternity that preceded human thought, a free fire, a gift from heaven, a living sign of the elements unnoticed by the world-weary pedestrian, a fire in the ditches of Prague warming the wanderer's eye and soul."

-- Bohumil Hrabal

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“People generally don't suffer high rates of PTSD after natural disasters. Instead, people suffer from PTSD after moral atrocities. Soldiers who've endured the depraved world of combat experience their own symptoms. Trauma is an expulsive cataclysm of the soul.”
“Fun can be the dessert of our lives but never its main course.”
“I think I learned to appreciate and treasure each day, because you don't know how many you're going to be given.”
“There are definite vocal trends for every generation as well as accents and I'm not talking about regionalisms.”

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“There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.”
“I believe that anybody who gets married should go to a counselor for months before the wedding. I think that's going to save guys a lot of money and the ladies a lot of heartbreak.”
“When people see one of these new forms of art for the first time, often they can't make sense of it. Then, if it's around long enough, a lot of people get used to it and it becomes assimilated into culture. So there's a morphic field both for the kind of art and for the appreciation of it.”
“Blind belief can be comforting, but it can easily cripple reason and productivity, and stop intellectual progress.”

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