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“The thought of these vast stacks of books would drive him mad: the more he read, the less he seemed to know — the greater the number of the books he read, the greater the immense uncountable number of those which he could never read would seem to be…. The thought that other books were waiting for him tore at his heart forever.”
Source : Thomas Wolfe (1999). “Of Time and the River: A Legend of Man's Hunger in His Youth”, p.115, Simon and Schuster
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“A lawsuit is to ordinary life what war is to peacetime. In a lawsuit, everybody on the other side is bad. A trial transcript is a discourse in malevolence.”
Source : Janet Malcolm (2011). “The Journalist and the Murderer”, p.63, Vintage
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“At heart, this job is about continuing to make great theatre for the people of Sheffield - a city I've known and loved since childhood.”
Source : "Selby miners take an early bath" by David Ward, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2004.
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“The brain is the organ of destiny. It holds within its humming mechanism secrets that will determine the future of the human race.”
Source : Wilder Penfield (1963). “The second career: with other essays and addresses”
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“I'm too shy for personal appearances, and I've found out that anytime I talk about my writing, I can't do any writing for many weeks afterward.”
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“I am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether.”
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“Different people feel differently about resigning”
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“If you have no opposition in the place you serve, you're serving in the wrong place.”