"But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in."

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Source : Junot Diaz (2008). “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”, p.209, Faber & Faber

Junot Diaz

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“Just start the sentence...and see what happens. This is how we write.”
“Where is everybody? Humans could theoretically colonize the galaxy in a million years or so, and if they could, astronauts from older civilizations could do the same. So why haven't they come to Earth?”
“A lot of people now think Im a shoe. They dont even know I was a tennis player. The shoe has really taken on a life of its own, way beyond me.”
“Everything is the way it is because we've all agreed that's the way it is.”
“[Examiners] spend their lives in discovering which pages of a text-book a man ought to read and which will not be likely to 'pay'.”

Source : "Life and scientific work of Peter Guthrie Tait". Book by Cargill Gilston Knott, p. 11, 1911.
“I do not value religion chiefly for its morality.”
“The fact is I am guilty of sexual immorality. And I take responsibility for the entire problem. I am a deceiver and a liar. Thereâ€™s a part of my life that is so repulsive and dark that I have been warring against it for all of my adult life,”

Source : "Haggard admits 'sexual immorality,' apologizes" by The Associated Press, www.nbcnews.com. November 5, 2006.
“Do anything, but let it produce joy. Do anything, but let it yield ecstasy.”

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