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“It is amazing how, when all possibilities seem to be taken away from you, the minutest opening can become a great freedom.”
Source : Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.28, Random House
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“When something disappointing happened, my mother would remind me not to let that become my focus. There's still so much to be grateful for.”
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“God's reasons for communicating with man must be subsumed under his reason for communicating to him his account of his creation of the world - and man.”
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“The memory is like orbiting twin stars, one visible, one dark, the trajectory of what's evident forever affected by the gravity of what's concealed.”
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“Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted.”
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“Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.”
Source : Shirley Hazzard (2004). “The Evening of the Holiday: A Novel”, p.95, Macmillan
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“I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“A few really dedicated people can offset the masses of out of harmony people, so we who work for peace must not falter, we must continue to pray for peace and to act for peace in whatever way we can. We must continue to speak for peace and to live the way of peace; to inspire others, we must continue to think of peace and know that peace is possible. What we dwell upon we help bring to manifestation. One little person giving all of her time to peace makes news. Many people giving some of their time can make history.”