"People talk of sorrow as if it is soft, a thing of water and tears. But true sorrow is not soft. True sorrow is a thing of fire, and rock. It burns your heart, crushes your soul under the weight of mountains. It destroys, and even if you keep breathing, keep going, you die."

-- Laurell K. Hamilton

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“If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.”
“On tue un homme, on est un assassin. On tue des millions d'hommes, on est un conquÃ©rant. On les tue tous, on est un dieu. Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.”
“Now there is living to give instead of to get. As you concentrate on the giving, you discover that just as you cannot receive without giving, so neither can you give without receiving - even the most wonderful things like health and happiness and inner peace. There is a feeling of endless energy, it just never runs out, it seems to be as endless as air. You seem to be plugged in to the source of universal energy.”
“The trouble with you, dear, is that you think an angel of the Lord as a creature with wings, whereas he is probably a scruffy little man with a bowler hat.”

Source : Josephine Tey (2012). “The Franchise Affair”, p.251, Simon and Schuster
“Under [Tim] Cook, Apple has a new product line with the Apple Watch, but it hasn't generated the kind of excitement that the iPod, iPhone or iPad did. Still, Cook can't be called a failure. Under his leadership, the company released a larger version of the iPhone to record sales.”
“All merchandize has the two essential properties of money, to measure and to represent all value: and in this sense all merchandize is money.”

Source : "Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth". Book by Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (§ 39), 1766.
“I'm quite grateful to the BBC. They helped me back onto the touring circuit.”
“As a kid I said 'Bob Costas went to Syracuse, I'm going to Syracuse'”

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