"A great novel is worth one thousand films."

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Oscar Hijuelos

#Writing Quotes #Film Quotes #Novel Quotes

“A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.”
“I like looking at the finger of God. Why it takes one and not another, why this one or that one, why now or why then. The finger of God is always on us. When you get older and you see your friends dying around you, you say "Why not me?" That machine is always there.”

Source : "To die is very strange". Interview with Caia Hagel, logger.believermag.com. March 12, 2014.
“Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.”
“My father made me who I am. He gave me a basketball and told me to play with the ball, sleep with the ball, dream with the ball. Just don't take it to school. I used it as a pillow, and it never gave me a stiff neck.”
“Nothing says “i came here to win” like jazz hands”
“When youâ€™re training Parkour with passion, if youâ€™re good, people will notice you. Donâ€™t go around saying, â€˜Hey look at this new move I got.â€™ No. We used to say, â€˜If itâ€™s good weâ€™ll tell you.â€™ Do it for yourself first.”
“No relationship is perfect and no human being is perfect.”

Source : Source: www.djbooth.net
“In sorting out my feelings and beliefs, there is, however, one piece of moral ground of which I am absolutely certain: if I were to be murdered I would not want my murderer executed. I would not want my death avenged. Especially by government--which can't be trusted to control its own bureaucrats or collect taxes equitably or fill a pothole, much less decide which of its citizens to kill.”

Source : Helen Prejean (2011). “Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States”, p.21, Vintage

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