"Art is a criticism of society and life, and I believe that if life became perfect, art would be meaningless and cease to exist."

-- Naguib Mahfouz

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“The difficulty lay with the mind accommodating itself to the notion of the plane, with all its weight, defying gravity, staying aloft. She understood the aerodynamics of flight, could comprehend the laws of physics that made flight possible, but her heart, at the moment, would have none of it. Her heart knew the plane could fall out of the sky.”

Source : Anita Shreve (1998). “The Pilot's Wife”, Little, Brown
“What do you tell a man with two black eyes? Nothing, he's already been told twice.”

Source : "Fictional character: Darryl". "Be Cool", www.imdb.com. 2005.
“I learned to ski at a young age and love it - but I don't get to do it as much as I'd like because of the risk of injuries.”

Source : Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Grace finds us beggars but leaves us debtors.”
“I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.”
“Stay close to those who are not afraid to be vulnerable, because they have confidence in themselves and know that, at some point in our lives, we all stumble; they do not interpret this as a sign of weakness, but of humanity. Avoid those who talk a great deal before acting, those who never take a step without being quite sure that it will bring them respect.”
“Horror grows impatient, rhetorically, with the Stoic fatalism of Ecclesiastes. That we are all going to die, that death mocks and cancels every one of our acts and attainments and every moment of our life histories, this knowledge is to storytelling what rust is to oxidation; the writer of horror holds with those who favor fire. The horror writer is not content to report on death as the universal system of human weather; he or she chases tornadoes. Horror is Stoicism with a taste for spectacle.”
“I'm such a lucky guy. I've been able to make my own decisions for my own life for the last fifty years...or sixty ... well maybe not sixty. Even though I think I was making my own decisions at the tender age of eight.”

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