"He had despised the sorcerer, thinking him one of those mewling souls who forever groaned beneath burdens of their own manufacture."

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R. Scott Bakker

#Thinking Quotes #Forever Quotes #Soul Quotes

“Andy says, I don't understand how they can give loans to people who want to spend two weeks lying on the sand at the goddam Jersey shore and then turn down a woman with three kids hanging on by her fingernails.”
“By now he had learned enough to know that when he was getting annoyed at somebody else, it was usually because there was something that he himself should be doing, and he wasn't doing it.”

Source : Lev Grossman (2015). “The Magicians Trilogy”, p.560, Penguin
“You've got to love acting and that's true for me. I love the idea of getting on stage and getting in front of a camera.”

Source : "Warwick Davis Talks Leprechauns, Johnny Depp, And His Desire To "Just Keep Working"". Interview with Scott Neumyer, www.ifc.com. March 16.
“Hardly one soldier in a hundred was inspired by religious feeling of even the crudest kind. It would have been difficult to remain religious in the trenches even if one had survived the irreligion of the training battalion at home.”
“It is therefore recommended... to set apart Thursday the eighteenth day of December next, for solemn thanksgiving and praise, that with one heart and one voice the good people may express the grateful feelings of their hearts and consecrate themselves to the service of their divine benefactor.”
“A quaint conceit, don't you think?”
“But we are here, all of us. And we're here because I love you, more than the life that was mine. Because I believed you loved me the same way...will you tell me that's not true? No, he said after a moment, so softly I could barely hear him. His hand tightened harder on mine. No, I willna tell ye that. Not ever, Claire.”
“Life is ridiculous. It's not our fault.”

Source : Blake Nelson (2011). “Recovery Road”, p.14, Scholastic Inc.

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