"As any war veteran will tell you, there is a vast difference between preparing for battle and actually facing battle for the first time. You can be told that reading Victor Hugo will sap your will to live, but you can't understand what it means until you've read a few chapters and your eyes are glazed over and someone has to revive you with a defibrillator."

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Source : "Tricked". Book by Kevin Hearne, April 24, 2012.

Kevin Hearne

#War Quotes #Reading Quotes #Mean Quotes

“A discordant mind, black with confusion and despair, would finish me off as thoroughly as the cold.”

Source : Richard E. Byrd (2003). “Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure”, p.190, Island Press
“It's not acceptable to torture people for being themselves.”
“Jamie enjoyed solitude, but loneliness was a constant ache.”
“Competing is exciting and winning is exhilarating, but the true prize will always be the self-knowledge and understanding that you have gained along the way.”
“He who cannot eat horsemeat need not do so. Let him eat pork. But he who cannot eat pork, let him eat horsemeat. It's simply a question of taste.”
“I don't remember one thing I learned in school.”
“Why all these years have I been agreeably turning down the stereo every time the phone rings?”
“We are not mad. We are human.We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.”

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