"I didnâ€™t realize that one tragedy can beget another, and another â€” bright-eyed disasters flooding out of a death hole like bats out of a cave."

-- Karen Russell

#Tragedy Quotes #Bats Quotes #Caves Quotes

“I think that most actors, and they're a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to keep in touch with the child.”

Source : Interview With Brian Linder, www.ign.com. July 28, 2004.
“Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.”

Source : John Von Neumann, F. Br¢dy, Tibor V mos (1995). “The Neumann Compendium”, p.626, World Scientific
“I try to forgive her for my father's sake. But to be honest, I'm not the forgiving type.”
“I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker, by three different lights, in his solitude, his afflictions, and his last moments.... [In these situations such people show themselves] in solitude, incapable or rapture or elevation, ... in distress, [with] a halter or a pistol the only refuge [they] can fly to, ... [and liable to conversion] at the approach of death.”
“Home?' I say. It's a word that can mean anywhere and nowhere.”
“The more failure you can accept, the greater your chance of success.”

Source : Chris Matthews (2010). “The Hardball Handbook: How to Win at Life”, p.14, Random House
“Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.”
“I am inside someone who hates me. I look out from his eyes.”

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