"We canâ€™t always tell the whole story about ourselves."

-- Denis Johnson

#Stories Quotes

“The perfect Semite (Jews are not Semites but are Khazars, descended from Japheth) is positive and impassioned. The two elements exercise a reciprocal influence, each moderating what is too excessive and therefore unlikely to live in the other, creating a being apart who easily arrives at domination, for nothing can stop such a man...It is the eternal opposition of Shylock and Jessica. It is the illogical and monstrous mixture of the rarest qualities with the most abject defects, mixture of irresistible force and of irremediable weakness.”
“[E]ach person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others.”

Source : John RAWLS (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.60, Harvard University Press
“When you compete with a person, you only have to be as good or better than the person to win. If you compete with yourself, there is no limitation to how good you can be.”
“She snatched at the dream that had comforted her for so long. It was faded and thin, like a letter too often read.”

Source : Elizabeth George Speare (2011). “The Witch of Blackbird Pond”, p.244, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I asked him a number of questions and I got some very interesting answers. Ken's heroes, according to Christopher, would be people like John Wayne, of course.”
“The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardner objected that the tree was slow growing and wouldn't reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, "In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!”
“Vanity and rudeness are seldom seen together.”
“In the first seat, in robe of various dyes, A noble wildness flashing from his eyes, Sat Shakespeare: in one hand a wand he bore, For mighty wonders fam'd in days of yore: The other held a globe, which to his will Obedient turn'd, and own'd the master's skill: Things of the noblest kind his genius drew, And look'd through nature at a single view: A loose he gave to his unbounded soul, And taught new lands to rise, new seas to roll; Call'd into being scenes unknown before, And passing nature's bounds, was something more.”

Source : Charles Churchill (1764). “Poems”, p.12

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