"But then, that was the problem with pretty toy stitches. When real life got hold of them, they always tore out."

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Paolo Bacigalupi

#Real Quotes #Stitches Quotes #Toys Quotes

“Defeat? I do not recognize the meaning of the word.”
“The origin of the conflict, frustration, and anxiety we experience does not lie in the nature of the world itself but in our distorted conceptions of the world.”

Source : Stephen Batchelor (1983). “Alone with Others: An Existential Approach to Buddhism”, p.105, Grove Press
“I believe that the greatest teachers create thinking students.”
“What can be heavier than wealth than freedom?”
“A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.”

Source : graf Leo Tolstoy (2006). “Leo Tolstoy: Spiritual Writings”
“Bombing is not especially inhumane. War itself is inhumane and the bombing plane, which is used to paralyse industry and transport, is a relatively civilised weapon. 'Normal' or 'legitimate' warfare is just as destructive of inanimate objects and enormously so of human lives.”
“Embrace your dreams and advance as far as they can take you.”
“fiction is the great lie that tells the truth”

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