"Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out."

-- J. K. Rowling

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“I'm doing the best I can with what I got and that's all anybody in my band is doing.”

Source : Source: www.harpersbazaar.com
“I know, you've been here a year, you think these people are normal. Well, they're not. WE'RE not. I look in the library, I call up books on my desk. Old ones, because they won't let us have anything new, but I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares. Children aren't in armies, they aren't COMMANDERS, they don't rule over forty other kids, it's more than anybody can take and not get crazy.”
“We make choices everyday, some of them good, some of them bad. And - if we are strong enough - we live with the consequences.”

Source : David Gemmell (2005). “Lord of the Silver Bow”, Bantam Press
“When you make a lotta money, you got a lotta people shooting at you. Anywhere you go, the tab goes up. People borrow stuff from you, you don't see it again - they figure, Hell, Moses ain't gonna miss it, why do I have to return it?”

Source : Source: business.highbeam.com
“It's too easy only to blame the militarists, racists, sexists and other pushers of violence for the mess we're in. What is harder is self-examination, moving beyond caring by looking inward to ask the personal question: What more should I be doing everyday to bring about a peace and justice based world, whether across the ocean or across the living room?”
“[In relation to business:] Invention must be its keynote-a steady progression from one thing to another. As each in turn approaches a saturated market, something new must be produced.”
“Your true self is beyond either relying on others or avoiding them in order to know who you are.”
“My mother was like a sister to me, only we didn't have sex quite so often.”

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