"Why did the generals who have been so ready to term me a complaisant and incompetent yes-man fail to secure my removal? Was that all that difficult? No, that wasn't it; the truth was that nobody would have been ready to replace me, because each one knew that he would end up just as much a wreck as I."

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Source : "The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Keitel". Book by Walter Gorlitz, p. 52, 1966.

Wilhelm Keitel

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“Part of the pleasure of any kind of walking for me is the very idea of going somewhere-by foot.”
“That each from other differs, first confess; next that he varies from himself no less.”
“Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.”
“For so many years, for so long, I have been so many things, so many different men. But here," he said, so softly I could barely hear him, "here in the dark, with youâ€¦ I have no name.”

Source : Diana Gabaldon (2012). “The Outlander Series 7-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone”, p.1900, Dell
“I am profoundly uncertain how to write. I know what I love and what I like, because it's a direct passionate response. But when I write, I'm very uncertain whether it's good enough. That is, of course, the writer's agony.”
“No one can fully understand the meaning of love unless he's owned a dog. A dog can show you more honest affection with a flick of his tail than a man can gather through a lifetime of handshakes.”

Source : Gary Paulsen, James Herriot, Bill Tarrant, Gene Hill, Ted Kerasote, Lynn Stone “In Praise of Labs”
“It's not just about waking up and trying to be a star... It's practice, practice, practice.”
“I'm beautiful in my way 'cause God makes no mistakes. I'm on the right track baby, I was born this way.”

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