"I was not allowed to take notes but my friend and I memorised those two and a half pages. Most people talked to me because of the warning. They knew this book was not going to be the official line."

-- Jung Chang

#Book Quotes #Sea Quotes #Two Quotes

“Slavery is the offspring of darkness.”
“I seem to use this word 'kind' very frequently. When one is unhappy or anxious it is a quality one dwells on.”
“I'm from Kansas, so there were a lot of vacant lots and open fields to tackle each other in so we could avoid tackling each other on the street. But running on the street and trying not to get taken down on the concrete, that will make you fast, that's for sure.”

Source : "Barry Sanders: "Mr. 99"". Interview with Jon Robinson, www.espn.com. July 31, 2009.
“I write box notes for Kino International, which specializes in distributing foreign films.”
“I think novelists are in the education business, really, but they're not teaching you times tables, they are teaching you responsiveness and morality and to make nuanced judgments. And really to just make the planet look a bit richer when you go out into the street.”
“The single most important tool to being in balance is knowing that you and you alone are responsible for the imbalance between what you dream your life is meant to be, and the daily habits that drain life from that dream.”
“Was I the only woman in the world who, at my age - and after a lifetime of quite rampant independence - still did not quite feel grown up?”

Source : Dodie Smith (2012). “The Town in Bloom”, p.200, Hachette UK
“If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would be no lies.”

Source : "The treasures of B. Traven".

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