"Heroes, well, they don't live so long. But they're muy suave, and we all admire them."

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Source : Nancy Farmer (2013). “The Lord of Opium”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

Nancy Farmer

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“Censorship may be useful for the preservation of morality, but can never be so for its restoration.”

Source : Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G. D. H. Cole (2003). “On the Social Contract”, p.88, Courier Corporation
“I may not amount to much, but at least I am unique.”
“If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.”

Source : Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”
“A person's relationship with food is one of their most important relationships.”
“While we read a novel, we are insaneâ€”bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren't there, we hear their voices... Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.”
“My problem with political art is not that it's bad art necessarily, but that it is terrible politics. We're talking about a closeted person with minimum contact with reality who has trouble tying his f**king shoes! And he's supposed to be political? A bus driver has a better perspective on things. Artists are completely indulgent.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“One builds one's life in consistency; one invests it with the belief, however unsupported by reality, that one has always been what one is now, that even in one's distant past one could recognize the seed from which this doomed flower has bloomed.”

Source : Aleksandar Hemon (2010). “Love and Obstacles”, p.155, Pan Macmillan
“One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.”

Source : "The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations" by Elizabeth Knowles and Angela Partington, (p. 840), 1999.

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