"There was a sharp crack from somewhere on the mountain. Then another. It's just a tree falling, he said. It's okay. The boy was looking at the dead roadside trees. It's okay, the man said. All the trees in the world are going to fall sooner or later. But not on us."

-- Cormac McCarthy

#Fall Quotes #Boys Quotes #Men Quotes

“My sense is that we are missing a huge part of the human story. I think it's possible, indeed probable, that we are a species with amnesia; that we've lost the record of our story going back thousands of years before so-called history began, and I think that if we could go back to that dark epoch, we would discover many astounding things about ourselves.”
“Like, Australians definitely don't walk around dressed up in blackface going, 'Ha-ha.'”

Source : "Chris Lilley on Angry Boys, the Blackface Taboo, and Laughing at His Own Jokes". Interview with Jean Bentley, www.vulture.com. December 28, 2011.
“If Joan of Arc could turn the tide of an entire war before her eighteenth birthday, you can get out of bed.”
“You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life. Everywhere in the universe.”

Source : Philip K. Dick (2008). “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?: The inspiration for the films Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049”, p.179, Ballantine Books
“Crises can never break the one who relies on God's strength.”
“It is the heart which inspires eloquence.”
“The best way to fight stupidity, is by ignoring it.”
“The only difference between the narrator of contemporary affairs and the ordinary historian is that moral judgments about the present provoke fiercer reactions and have more immediately practical implications than moral judgments about the past.”

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