"Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change."

-- Bertrand Russell

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“Perhaps fiction has, for me, served a similar purpose--what is a narrative arc if not the imposition of order on disparate events?--and perhaps it is my avid reading that has been my faith all along.”
“These were people so hungry for love that they were accepting substitutes. There were embracing material things and expecting a sort of hug back. But it never works. You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. Money is no substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness. I can tell you as I'm sitting here dying, when you most need it, neither money nor power will give you the feeling you're looking for, no matter how much of them you have.”
“Im in a very enviable position, being able to work like this 45 years later. Its always beginning! I never have a sense of finishing up, just new things beginning. When I die, theyre going to carry me off a stage.”
“Clergy had a vested interest in retaining the old, ways, which made few demands of them as teachers, as spiritual guides, or as moral examples or agents.”
“Is this chicken, what I have, or is this fish? I know it's tuna, but it says 'Chicken of the Sea.'”
“Truth, it has been said, is the first casualty of war.”

Source : "Truth and the War". Book by Edmund Dene Morel. Introduction, p. 9, 1916.
“Instead of jumping at the chance to be offended, choose to be amused. Rather than filling your thoughts with resentment, fill your heart with forgiveness.”
“But I don't think I've grown up to be a damaged adult.”

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