"We are all good friends. Friendship is what endures. Shared ideals, respect for the whole character of a human being."

-- E. L. Doctorow

#Character Quotes #Good Friend Quotes #Endure Quotes

“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
“Had the cub thought in man-fashion, he might have epitomized life as a voracious appetite, and the world as a place wherein ranged a multitude of appetites, pursuing and being pursued, hunting and being hunted, eating and being eaten, all in blindness and confusion, with violence and disorder, a chaos of gluttony and slaughter, ruled over by chance, merciless, planless, endless.”
“Once the seed of faith takes root, it cannot be blown away, even by the strongest wind - Now thatâ€™s a blessing.”
“I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.”
“I am about to get involved with the biggest cancer hospital in Norway. They are building a fitness center to work with patients. I will be a consultant.”
“I say, Watson,â€™ he whispered, â€˜would you be afraid to sleep in the same room as a lunatic, a man with softening of the brain, an idiot whose mind has lost its grip?â€™ â€˜Not in the least,â€™ I answered in astonishment. â€˜Ah, thatâ€™s lucky,â€™ he said, and not another word would he utter that night.”
“China can draw on a talent pool of 1.3 billion people, but the United States can draw on a talent pool of 7 billion and recombine them in a diverse culture that enhances creativity in a way that ethnic Han nationalism cannot.”
“When I was in art school, I thought art was something I would learn how to do, and then I would just do it. At a certain point I realized that it wasn't going to work like that. Basically, I would have to start over every day and figure out what art was going to be.”

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