"Friends you will have need of, for in you two worlds meet. There is no one on both sides with you, so you must learn to take your own counsel; and not to fear what is strange, if you know it also to be true. â€”Luthe"

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Robin McKinley

#Two Quotes #World Quotes #Sides Quotes

“In general I esteem it a good maxim, that the best way to preserve the confidence of the people durably is to promote their true interest”
“Entertainers and sports figures achieve fame and wealth but find the world empty and dull without the solace and stimulation of drugs.”
“My sin, oh, the bliss of this glorious thought! My sin, not in part but the whole, Is nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more, Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul!”
“To live in a culture in which women are routinely naked where men aren't is to learn inequality in little ways all day long.”
“Chess is not for timid souls.”
“There was no such thing as perfection in this world, only moments of such extreme transparency that you forgot yourself, a holy mercy if there ever was one.”

Source : Ben Fountain (2012). “Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk”, p.77, Canongate Books
“The one thing for which we are all being disciplined is to know that God is real. As soon as God becomes real, other people become shadows. Nothing that other saints do or say can ever perturb the one who is built on God.”
“I've never met Eminem; you don't meet Eminem. He has his own secret service.”

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