"What have you done when you have bested a fool?"

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Source : Charles Portis (2010). “True Grit: A Novel”, p.84, The Overlook Press

Charles Portis

#Done Quotes #Fool Quotes

“We make the best phone, we don't make the most phones.”
“I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts.”
“The visible world only becomes the real world by the operation of thought”
“But you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.”

Source : Andrew Jackson (1837). “Messages ...: With a Short Sketch of His Life”, p.436
“I'm about to turn 48, and I think that the closer I get to 50, the more I might be interested in fatherhood. But honestly, I'm not grown up yet myself.”
“Maybe all you can do, when your world is burning, is hold on to the thing you love the most.”

Source : Jackson Pearce (2013). “Cold Spell”, p.153, Hachette UK
“The death of Satan was a tragedy For the imagination.”
“My job was to produce plutonium that was used for atomic bomb.”

Source : "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.counterpunch.org. August 18, 2004.

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