"I only know that from wherever it is that we're going there can be no turning back"

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Source : Anya Seton (2013). “Katherine”, p.262, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Anya Seton

“Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience.”
“... love always betrays its intentions.”
“You can't put toilet paper in the toilet [in the space ship], so there's a separate vacuum can in front of you on the wall and when you're done, you put the toilet paper in there and seal that up.”
“Capitalism arose and took off its pajamas. Another day, another dollar. Each man is valued at what he will bring in the marketplace. Meaning has been drained from work and assigned instead to remuneration.”

Source : Donald Barthelme (1982). “Sixty stories”, Plume
“The world was divided into two groups: those who showered at night, and those who showered in the morning.”

Source : Linda Howard (2012). “Mr Perfect”, p.441, Simon and Schuster
“A 99% Value-at-Risk calculation does not evaluate what happens in the last one percent... This is like an airbag that works all the time, except when you have a car accident.”
“Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.”

Source : Benjamin Nathan Cardozo (1982). “Cardozo on the Law: Including the Nature of the Judicial Process, The Growth of the Law, The Paradoxes of Legal Science, Law and Literature”
“[Albert] Camus' was born in Algeria of French nationality, and was assimilated into the French colony, although the French colonists rejected him absolutely because of his poverty.”

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