"I felt as if I were riding a pendulum. Just as I would swing into the abyss of hopelessness, the pendulum would swing back with some small goodness."

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Source : Ruta Sepetys (2011). “Between Shades of Gray”, p.61, Penguin

Ruta Sepetys

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“Life on earth is hard. Competition for the necessities of life is fierce. How ridiculous to believe that the law of harsh survival would not be true elsewhere, or that it would be negated by the progress of technology in an advanced civilization...”

Source : Greg Bear (2014). “The Forge of God”, p.246, Open Road Media
“Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.”
“Nonsense is that which does not fit into the prearranged patterns which we have superimposed on reality...Nonsense is nonsense only when we have not yet found that point of view from which it makes sense.”
“While I played Ranji Trophy for five years, I used to be asked, 'When are you playing for the nation?' - a question which I didn't have any answer to. I kept playing before I got my first break in 1996; those five years were indeed frustrating.”
“When a human being without amplification makes a sound that is high and loud, it is almost unworldly.”
“We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.”

Source : Sir Oliver Lodge (2016). “Raymond Or Life And Death”, p.80, Read Books Ltd
“At heart, Sussman was a theoretician. In another age, he might have been a Talmudic scholar. He had cultivated a Socratic method, zinging question after question at the reporters: Who moved over from Commerce to CRP with Stans? What about Mitchell's secretary? Why won't anybody say when Liddy went to the White House or who worked with him there? Mitchell and Stans both ran the budget committee, right? What does that tell you? Then Sussman would puff on his pipe, a satisfied grin on his face.”
“I find the science behind major natural events almost more interesting than the way in which those same events wreak their effects on human society.”

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