"One act presses upon another, on a path we have no choice but to follow, and each time there are reasons. We do what we must, we do what we are told, we do what is easiest. What else can we do but solve one sordid problem at a time? Then we look up and find... this."

-- Joe Abercrombie

#Choices Quotes #Looks Quotes #Path Quotes

“hope springs eternal, even in the heart of a fat girl.”
“Every human longs for peace and love.”
“But somehow in identifying myself as the healer, there was still a seed of both self-righteousness and defense from a kind of emptiness.”
“Thereâ€™s no use in denying it: this has been a bad week. Iâ€™ve started drinking my own urine.”
“We can best serve the cause of Canadian unity and understanding by living first in and through and then beyond our own immediate traditions.”

Source : "Speaking Of Canada" by Vincent Massey, 1959.
“If we can effectively kill the national pride and patriotism of just one generation, we will have won that country. Therefore, there must be continued propaganda abroad to undermine the loyalty of citizens in general, and teenagers in particular. By making drugs of various kinds readily available, by creating the necessary attitude of chaos, idleness and worthlessness, and by preparing him psychologically and politically, we can succeed.”
“I had a hard time publishing my books in the beginning of my career, because editors were afraid what people would think of THEM, personally, if their name was associated with me”
“We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being.”

Source : William Boyd (2003). “Any human heart: a novel”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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