"Childhood is only the beautiful and happy time in contemplation and retrospect: to the child it is full of deep sorrows, the meaning of which is unknown."

-- George Eliot

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“I would dare say that most anyone in public life, if they stay in public long enough, is not treated fairly.”
“We're not going to waste our valuable space or your precious energy by giving equal time to stories of tragedy, failure, and tumult. They get far more that their fair share of attention everywhere else. Future historians might even conclude that our age suffered from a collective obsessive-compulsive disorder: the pathological need to repetitively seek out reasons for how bad life is.”
“To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.”
“I know that my look is more 'toothpaste model' as opposed to artsy, which sucks because I can play those roles.”
“Like everyone else, I get swept along just trying to keep up with that endlessly growing to-do list, but I do my best to treat the day as one big meditation or symphony.”
“We live a pleasant life shopping at the Food Shoppe . . . taking the kids to the Weinery-Beanery, . . . and eating bran flakes . .. and then, with no warning, we wake up one morning stricken with middle age, full of loneliness, dumb, in pain. Our work is useless, our vocation is lost, and nobody cares about us at all. This is not bearable. In despair, we go do something spectacularly dumb, like run away with Amber the cocktail waitress, and suddenly all the women in our life look at us with unmitigated disgust.”
“Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.”

Source : Joe Abercrombie (2012). “The Heroes: A First Law Novel”, p.211, Hachette UK
“I was reminding myself of the one basic rule for experts on females: confine yourself absolutely to explaining why she did what she has already done because that will save the trouble of explaining why she didn't do what you said she would.”

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