"When someone asks me to list the 10 best novels ever written, I always refuse to answer."

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Henning Mankell

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“Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.'”
“If I were you I'd promise to live life for all it's worth, take all you've been given and leave your mark upon this Earth. Trust your heart to show you everything you need...and if you were you, I'd fall in love with me.”
“Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive-it's such an interesting world.”
“Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want.”
“If something cannot go on for ever, it will stop”

Source : Herbert Stein (1998). “What I Think: Essays on Economics, Politics, and Life”, p.32, American Enterprise Institute
“I had a Saturday job in a chemist. The pay was something ridiculous like Â£2 an hour - it was slave labour - and I spent all day cleaning shelves. On my first day an actress from Eldorado, which was on telly at the time, came in and said, 'Can I have some Replense please?' I didn't know what it was, so I had to ask her and she had to say, 'It's vaginal moisturiser,' in front of a massive queue of people. After one day I was like, 'I don't want to do this job any more, it's just boring.'”

Source : Source: www.mirror.co.uk
“blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born.”
“Mere imagination would indeed be mere trifling; only no imagination is mere .”

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