"A man can reach into anything and turn it to his cause. It's not want, or desire, just certainty. Only be assured that whatever you reach into will reach into you in turn."

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Source : Mark Lawrence (2013). “Emperor of Thorns”, p.275, Penguin

Mark Lawrence

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“For it was only after I could become President of this country that I could really see in all its hopeful and troubling implications just how much the hopes of our citizens and the security of our Nation and the real strength of our democracy depended upon the learning and the understanding of our people.”
“I think there is a way to be formal and elegant and classy, but more modern. Brad Pitt has been changing it, and Will Smith has been doing it in his own way.”
“Harvey [Weinstein] didn't want to release [MY SON THE FANATIC]; he held it for two years because he wanted a happy ending, although I don't know what that means. Does that mean the taxi driver leaves his wife or doesn't leave his wife? I think it has a happy ending.”
“I always knew I would turn a corner and run into this day, but I ain't prepared for it nohow.”

Source : Louise Meriwether (2002). “Daddy was a Number Runner”, p.111, Feminist Press at CUNY
“One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one's mind.”
“There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.”
“All restraints upon man's natural liberty, not necessary for the simple maintenance of justice, are of the nature of slavery, and differ from each other only in degree.”
“I just know so many people who have six or seven foreign languages and have read everything and have musical training and they are still dorks”

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