"History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders."

-- Edna O'Brien

#Bystanders Quotes #Fiction Quotes #Said Quotes

“You are everything good and straight and fine and trueâ€”and I see that so clearly now, in the way youâ€™ve carried yourself and listened to your own heart. Youâ€™ve changed me more than you know, and will always be a part of everything I am. Thatâ€™s one thing Iâ€™ve learned from this. No one you love is ever truly lost.”
“When we begin to believe that there is greater joy in working with and for others, rather than just for ourselves, then our society will truly become a place of celebration.”
“They write them long because they can't write them short.”
“You punch like you take it up the ass.”

Source : "Raging Bull". www.imdb.com. 1980.
“I wouldn't compare my sound on the mixtape to anything, but my influences are like - the minimal amount of hip-hop that I actually do know - because I didn't grow up listening to hip-hop like that. No one really put me on to hip-hop like that... My dad's from Jamaica and my mom is from Barbados, so that's really the stuff I grew up listening to.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Coffee is not as necessary to ministers of the reformed faith as to Catholic priests. The latter are not allowed to marry, and coffee is said to induce chastity.”
“As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.”
“The love of money grows as the money itself grows.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 521-24, XIV, line 139, 1922.

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