"Alexander, you broke my heart. But for carrying me on your back, for pulling my dying sled, for giving me your last bread, for the body you destroyed for me, for the son you have given me, for the twenty-nine days we lived like Red Birds of Paradise, for all our Naples sands and Napa wines, for all the days you have been my first and last breath, for Orbeli- I will forgive you."

-- Paullina Simons

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“I'm a combination of the Terminator and Bambi.”
“The survival of American democracy depends less on the size of its armies than on the capacity of its individual citizens to rely... on the strength of their own thought.”

Source : Lewis H. Lapham (2004). “Gag Rule: On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy”, p.1, Penguin
“Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult.”
“Sometimes when you're editing a movie, you have the thing that you don't expect - which is you make it longer and longer as you go along.”
“I believe the writer... should always be the final judge. I have always held to that position and have sometimes seen books hurt thereby, but at least as often helped. The book belongs to the author.”
“Everyone has the right to run his own life- even if you're heading for a crash. What I'm against is blind flying.”
“We know that attention acts as a lightning rod. Merely by concentrating on something one causes endless analogies to collect around it, even penetrate the boundaries of the subject itself: an experience that we call coincidence, serendipity â€“ the terminology is extensive. My experience has been that in these circular travels what is really significant surrounds a central absence, an absence that, paradoxically, is the text being written or to be written.”
“The way to get killed around machinery was to take things for granted.”

Source : Richard McKenna (2010). “The Sand Pebbles”, p.13, RosettaBooks

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