"I write because I want to end my loneliness. Books make people less alone. That, before and after everything else, is what books do. They show us that conversations are possible across distances."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

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“I definitely have the eye of the tiger. Ive fought my way to where I am and will continue to do so. Im a hard worker - I get it from my family. We only know work. Nothing was handed to us. When I believe in something, I go after it. Its very hard to tell me no.”
“While I was an honorable man in her eyes, she did not love me. But the minute she understood what I was, when she breathed the true and foul odor of my soul, love was born in her â€“ for she does love me! Well, well! There is nothing real, then, except evil.”

Source : Octave Mirbeau (2016). “Torture Garden”, p.62, Library of Alexandria
“A perfect historian must possess an imagination sufficiently powerful to make his narrative affecting and picturesque; yet he must control it so absolutely as to content himself with the materials which he finds, and to refrain from supplying deficiencies by additions of his own. He must be a profound and ingenious reasoner; yet he must possess sufficient self-command to abstain from casting his facts in the mould of his hypothesis.”
“Hey, man, I toss a stick for a living. Gotta spice up that deal, y'know. Gotta stand out.”
“There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful.”
“It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.”

Source : "Duh! The Stupid History of the Human Race". Book by Bob Fenster, September 2000.
“Another person is, at the heart of it, unknowable. And if you cannot know a person enough to always guess what theyâ€™re capable of, you certainly cannot know them enough to hold them in your hands, to control their behavior, to fight, manipulate, cajole or nurse or soothe them into doing what they should or shouldnâ€™t. People will do what they will do. The trick is admitting your own helplessness about that little fact.”
“We'd be making sail in the dawn, with a fair breeze, singing a chanty song wid no care to it. And astern the land would be sinking low and dying out, but we'd give it no heed but a laugh, and never look behind. For the day that was, was enough, for we was free men - and I'm thinking 'tis only slaves do be giving heed to the day that's gone or the day to come - until they're old like me.”

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