"Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies - their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy."

-- Jules Verne

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“Fake friends are like autumn leaves, they're scattered everywhere.”
“Fasting breaks the spirit of heaviness.”
“On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12. I have also recently returned from New York, and while I was there, I saw Daniel singing and dancing (brilliantly) on Broadway. A lifetime seems to have passed in minutes.”
“What's when you rap and don't appreciate the art? What's when you sell out just to get a start? What's when you make bullshit just for the charts? What's when you rap, but it's not from the heart? What's when you're hardcore, then you turn pop? When you steal ideas to get props? When you sell out to be on top? What's when you front like you're hard, but you're not? That's a gimmick.”
“If you hit bottom, there's a whole lot of people here to help you up”
“Food should be raw, just the way God intended it!”
“No word floats without an anchoring connection within an overall structure.”

Source : Stanley Fish (2011). “How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One”, p.17, Harper Collins
“Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.”

Source : "The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft". Book by George Gissing. Winter, § 24, p. 287, 1903.

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