"Bolkenstein, a Minister, was speaking on the Dutch programme from London, and he said that they ought to make a collection of diaries and letters after the war. Of course, they all made a rush at my diary immediately. Just imagine how interesting it would be if I were to publish a romance of the "Secret Annexe." The title alone would be enough to make people think it was a detective story."

-- Anne Frank

#War Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.”
“When India got independence, entrepreneurs were seen as a bad lot, as people who would exploit.”
“There's nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.”

Source : Cynthia Hand (2012). “Hallowed”, p.20, Egmont UK
“I see most of my movies at festivals.”
“Franz Kafka is dead. He died in a tree from which he wouldn't come down. "Come down!" they cried to him. "Come down! Come down!" Silence filled the night, and the night filled the silence, while they waited for Kafka to speak. "I can't," he finally said, with a note of wistfulness. "Why?" they cried. Stars spilled across the black sky. "Because then you'll stop asking for me."”
“There is a radical dualism between the empirical nature of man and its moral nature.”

Source : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 59), 1937.
“That whole shoulder length hair thing is a thing!”
“If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics.”

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