"I saw how greatly he suffered the requirement of being clever. It separated him from his soul, and it didn't get him anything other than a living"

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Source : Mark Helprin (2005). “A Soldier of the Great War”, p.520, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Mark Helprin

#Clever Quotes #Soul Quotes #Requirements Quotes

“I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.”
“Whether that's questioning the dominant opinion of the day, the conventional wisdom of the day, or whether it's questioning the policies that come out of Washington, or out of our government, generally, I think media's job is to look at it and say, "What's really going on here? What's the story behind what you see?"”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com
“Dare to believe SOMETHING AMAZING is going to happen in your life. When you believe, ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE.”
“We only get to play this game one time, one life.”
“Yoga teaches you how to listen to your body.”
“There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it.”

Source : "A Photographer Traveled The World Snapping Portraits Of Women And Girls ‘Living On The Edge’" by Priscilla Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 8, 2015.
“In growing up, I was a child of the movies. I went to the movies every given opportunity, and that's pretty much what has informed a lot of my choices.”
“I...have always known that my destiny was, above all, a literary destiny â€” that bad things and some good things would happen to me, but that, in the long run, all of it would be converted into words. Particularly the bad things, since happiness does not need to be transformed: happiness is its own end.”

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