"For, in life, it is in the darkest zones one finds the brightest beauty and the most luminous wisdom."

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Source : Adam Gidwitz (2010). “A Tale Dark and Grimm”, p.9, Penguin

Adam Gidwitz

“Dissents speak to a future age. It's not simply to say, 'My colleagues are wrong and I would do it this way.' But the greatest dissents do become court opinions and gradually over time their views become the dominant view. So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.”

Source : Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Wendy W. Williams (2016). “My Own Words”, p.349, Simon and Schuster
“The trick in life is to hang out until the miracles come.”
“I'm seldom restricted by anything because I don't know how to restrict myself. It's a blessing and a curse. I feel a lot of support from people in Iceland, especially from people that are content with themselves and their life.”
“Like a lot of writers, I just got sick to death of conventional fiction. I absolutely couldn't stand the illusion of reality and plot. I just couldn't stomach it.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Intellectual discourse and investigation is admittedly great fun but only truly meaningful when conducted in the service of others.”
“At another location, we found barrels of chemical material that was intended for use as biochemical weapons. Everyone talks about there being no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, but they seem to be referring to completed nuclear bombs, not the many deadly chemical weapons or precursors that Saddam had stockpiled.”
“Jack Bogle's passionate cry of Enough! contains a thought-provoking litany of life lessons regarding our individual roles in commerce and society. Employing a seamless mix of personal anecdotes, hard evidence and all-too-often-underrated subjective admonitions, Bogle challenges each of us to aspire to become better members of our families, our professions and our communities.Â Rarely do so few pages provoke so much thought.Â Read this book.”
“I'm out there having as good a time as I did in the backyard since I was five-years-old.”

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