""You going back," she said. "You ain't going to run away from this, Grant.""

-- Ernest Gaines

#Running Quotes #Dying Quotes #Said Quotes

“A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.”

Source : William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.151
“Nothing will end war unless the people refuse to go to war.”
“The world isn't awful. People aren't awful. They want to be good. Something makes them bad. Something breaks them down, makes them snap.”
“To this day I donâ€™t know if he was struggling with the moral implications of gunning down half a dozen civilians, or if he was mentally counting to see if he had that many shells left in the gun.”
“I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures.”

Source : Gail Caldwell (2010). “Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship”, p.182, Random House
“A good school teaches you resilience - that ability to bounce back.”
“Action without study fatal. Study without action is futile....”
“While making my picture window photographs, I came to think that every room was like a gigantic camera forever pointed at the same view.”

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