"Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives."

-- Barbara Kingsolver

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“As a slave one cannot undertake obligations without the consent of one's master. As a citizen one cannot undertake obligations unless the legal system of the State in which one holds citizenship permits one to do so. Neither a slave nor a citizen is a free person, although those who are held as slaves or citizens may well be free persons: it is just that their freedom is not respected.”

Source : "The Perfect Law of Freedom". 2004.
“When I was 19 years old, I was the number one star of the world for two years; when I was 40, nobody wanted me; I couldn't get a job.”

Source : "'Gandhi' Is Winner Of Eight Academy Awards" by Aljean Harmetz, www.nytimes.com. April 12, 1983.
“The dreamer's valuation of a thing lost - not another man's - is the only standard to measure it by, and his grief for it makes it large and great and fine, and is worthy of our reverence in all cases.”
“I will sleep no more but arise, You oceans that have been calm within me! how I feel you, fathomless, stirring, preparing unprecedented waves and storms.”
“The script was always the most important thing to me and I loved the script. For one thing, I've always admired trees. I just worship them. Think what trees have witnessed, what history, such as living through the Civil War, yet they still survive.”
“Readers may be divided into four classes: 1) Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtied. 2) Sand-glasses, who retain nothing and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time. 3) Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read. 4) Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also”
“The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man...only five hundred.”
“... the best way to strip the allure and dreaminess from a lifelong dream is, very often, simply to have it come true.”

Source : David James Duncan (2010). “The Brothers K”, p.276, Dial Press

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