"The book is man's best invention so far."

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Source : Carolina Maria de Jesus (2005). “Beyond All Pity”

Carolina Maria de Jesus

#Book Quotes #Men Quotes #Invention Quotes

“If wearing this rag will in any way speed the process of gathering my furture soldiers, then I will waer it. But if it doesn't..." Vollrath bowed. "I will subject myself to your temper." You'll have no choice.”
“But in that moment when my brother took the field, all that washed away, and everyone was proud... I looked up at my dad, and he was smiling. I looked at my mom, and she was smiling even though she was nervous about my brother getting hurt, which was strange because it was a VCR tape of an old game, and she knew he didn't get hurt.”
“Nothing lasts forever but we always try, and I just can't help but wonder why we let it pass us by”

Source : Song: Beautiful Goodbye, Album: Amanda Marshall, 1995
“My buddies and I, we all went to law school together, and once we started working in different cities, we all did crazy stuff, and we'd write e-mails to each other about the stuff we would do. And my friends thought my e-mails were really funny and they said, "Dude, why don't you put this up on a Web site. You know people would love to read this."”
“If you'd asked me what I'd wanted to do five years ago, I'd have told you I wanted to be Viktor Vaughn or The Game - I would want to be a rapper with an eight ball of coke in my pocket and a wad of hundreds. Because that kind of freedom - well, perceived freedom - is where I want to be.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Gambling makes boys selfish and cruel as well as men.”

Source : Thomas Hughes (1857). “School Days at Rugby”, p.199
“I had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole beauty of the object.”
“When you're comfortable with someone, you don't look for anyone else.”

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