"It's incredible how much stamina you can find when you're fighting and enemy in battle, even if that enemy is just in your imagination."

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Source : Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). “Escape from Furnace 1: Lockdown”, p.60, Faber & Faber

Alexander Gordon Smith

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“The greatest reward for a student is not a good grade. It is the willingness of his teacher to listen to him.”
“Even the laws of justice themselves cannot subsist without mixture of injustice.”
“The Vores Third Quartet is a terrific piece that brings disparate components into harmony. . . it's celebratory, imaginative, touching, and fun.”
“A woman is like beer. They look good, they smell good, and you'd step over your own mother just to get one!”
“Many, many, many small moves of many kinds can bring a way to manage change. The theory can come later.”
“There is nothing that I so greatly admire as purposefulness. I have an enormous respect for people who know exactly what they are doing and where they are going. Such people are compact and integrated. They have clear edges. They give an impression of invulnerability and balance, and I wish I were one of them.”

Source : Louise Dickinson Rich (1963). “The forest years: containing in one volume We took to the woods [and] My neck of the woods”
“America is like one of those old-fashioned six-cylinder truck engines that can be missing two sparkplugs and have a broken flywheel and have a crankshaft that's 5000 millimeters off fitting properly, and two bad ball-bearings, and still runs. We're in that kind of situation. We can have substantial parts of the population committing suicide, and still run and look fairly good.”
“Most people put their childhood away as if it was an old hat. They forget it as if it was a phone number that does not apply anymore. They think about their life as if it was a salami which they are eating slice by slice and then they become grown-ups, but what are they now? Only those who grow up and still remain children are real human beings.”

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