"Doubtless there are other roads."

-- Stephen Crane

“Martin said, "It feels as though part of my self has detached and gone to Amsterdam, where itâ€”sheâ€”is waiting for me. Do you know about phantom-limb syndrome?" Julia nodded. "There's pain where she ought to be. It's feeding the other pain, the thing that makes me wash and count and all that. So her absence is stopping me from going to find her. Do you see?”
“What I enjoy most is travelling to different places and meeting new people. For me, it's all about life experiences, and I'm very grateful that acting allows me so many interesting and fulfilling ones.”
“It is through hearing stories about wicked stepmothers, lost children, good but misguided kings, wolves that suckle twin boys, youngest sons who receive no inheritance but must make their own way in the world, and eldest sons who waste their inheritance on riotous living and go into exile to live with the swine, that children learn or mislearn both what a child and what a parent is, what the cast of characters may be in the drama into which they have been born and what the ways of the world are.”

Source : Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.251, A&C Black
“Love is not a good thing, I've decided. It just makes you afraid you'll lose what you love, and then, because your fear makes a space for that to happen, it does. What's the point?”

Source : Helen Humphreys (2006). “Wild Dogs: A Novel”, p.103, W. W. Norton & Company
“As the old saying goes, 'money is power' and the more money the government takes, the more power it has over individuals.”

Source : Angela McGlowan (2009). “Bamboozled: How Americans are being Exploited by the Lies of the Liberal Agenda”, p.47, Thomas Nelson Inc
“The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.”
“Unity is not blind allegiance.”
“When we serve the great, they are our destiny.”

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