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“I've've seen some people like this that no matter what happens they've got something cheerful to feel about it. It's not always easy, but if we do it as a deliberate sward of battle rather then thinking 'Well, I'm not really feeling that way and therefore I shouldn't say that I am'. No! Make yourself that way!”
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“A book ... unlike a television program, moving picture or any other 'modern means of communication' ... can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed.”
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“When do you learn that the world, like any diner worth its salt, is open twenty-four hours a day?”
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“But most critically, sweet, never try to change the narrative structure of someone else's story, though you will certainly be tempted to, as you watch those poor souls in school, in life, heading unwittingly down dangerous tangents, fatal digressions from which they will unlikely be able to emerge. Resist the temptation. Spend your energies on your story. Reworking it. Making it better.”
Source : Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.83, Penguin
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“What is commonly called literary history is actually a record of choices.”
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“It is easy to crush an enemy outside oneself but impossible to defeat an enemy within.”
Source : Eiji Yoshikawa (1981). “Musashi”, HarperCollins Publishers
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“Today, I am an inquisitor. I shall not sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.”
Source : Barbara Jordan, Shelby Hearon (1979). “Barbara Jordan, a self-portrait”, Doubleday Books
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“You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.”
Source : Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”
