"As for you, you are alive. But it's not the same as living."

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Source : Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

Diane Setterfield

“There will always be a desire for something new, fresh and innovative, as well as a yearning and respect for timeless elegance and beauty.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“That everything is on fire, slow fire, and we're all less than a million breaths away from an oblivion more total than we can even bring ourselves to even try to imagine...”
“It should be the aim of grand strategy to discover and pierce the Achilles' heel of the opposing government's power to make war. Strategy, in turn, should seek to penetrate a joint in the harness of the opposing forces. To apply one's strength where the opponent is strong weakens oneself disproportionately to the effect attained. To strike with strong effect, one must strike at weakness.”
“Given time, given the number of prisoners now that we're interrogating, I'm confident that we're going to find weapons of mass destruction.”
“Have you ever noticed that Jesus is never recorded as taking a holiday? He retired for the purposes of his mission, not from it. He was never destroyed by his work; he was always on top of it. He moved among people as the master of every situation. He was busier than anyone; the multitudes were always at him, yet he had time, for everything and everyone. He was never hurried, or harassed, or too busy. He had complete supremacy over time; he never let it dictate to him. He talked of my time; my hour. He knew exactly when the moment had come for doing something and when it had not.”
“From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the rack, the thumb-screw, the stake, the persecutions of witchcraft, the whipping of naked women through the streets of Boston, banishment, trials of heresy, the halter about Garrison's neck, Lovejoy's death, the branding of Captain Walker, shouts of infidel and atheist, have all been for this purpose.”

Source : Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage (1979). “History of Woman Suffrage”, Ayer Company Pub
“Bush told me, he doesn't watch TV ... though it's untrue that he doesn't read the newspapers.”

Source : "Books: 'Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush'". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. September 11, 2007.
“Human nature fascinates me.”

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