"You need a reason to be sad. You don't need a reason to be happy."

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Source : Louis Sachar (2010). “Sideways Stories from Wayside School”, p.63, Bloomsbury Publishing

Louis Sachar

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“We're like America's little pit bull. They beat it, starve it, mistreat it, and once in a while they let it out to attack somebody.”

Source : Evan Wright (2005). “Generation Kill”, p.22, Penguin
“One of the tragedies of our life is that we keep forgetting who we are”
“Maydens, be they never so foolyshe, yet beeing fayre they are commonly fortunate.”
“What our species needs, above all else, is a generally accepted ethical system that is compatible with the scientific knowledge we now possess.”

Source : Derek Freeman (2001). “Dilthey's Dream: Essays on Human Nature and Culture”
“As frost to the bud, and blight to the blossom, even such is self-interest to friendship; for confidence cannot dwell where selfishness is porter at the gate.”
“The average comedian is kind of an observer looking at everyday things that everyone could relate to and then trying to find the exaggeration in those things.”
“Our country, the United States of America, may be the worlds largest economy and the worlds only superpower, but we stretch ourselves dangerously thin by taking on commitments like Iraq with only a motley band of allies to share the burden.”
“Not to get overly psychological about this, but it's probably why I became an actress in the first place: for that kind of freedom and refuge, as well as for the fact that I just love acting so much.”

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