"Tragedy is when someone ends up dead. Everything else is just a bump in the road. For the record, that was something Daddy used to say."

-- Gabrielle Zevin

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“I like black for clothes, small items, and jewelry. It's a color that can't be violated by any other colors. A color that simply keeps being itself. A color that sinks more somberly than any other color, yet asserts itself more than all other colors. It's a passionate gallant color. Anything is wonderful if it transcends things rather than being halfway...”
“Overcoming difficulties leads to courage, self-respect, and knowing yourself.”
“Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.”
“In the design of fission reactors man was not an innovator but an unwitting imitator of nature.”
“He's a smart man, so I am assuming he will do it.”
“Better late than never but never late is better. They tell me time is money well we'll spend it together.”
“A lot of us are working harder than we want, at things we don't like to do. Why? It figures! In order to afford the sort of existence we don't care to live.”

Source : Bradford Angier (1998). “How to Stay Alive in the Woods: A Complete Guide to Food, Shelter, and Self-Preservation That Makes Starvation in the Wilderness Next to Impossible”, p.245, Simon and Schuster
“Scotch Whisky is about the only thing left that is guaranteed to bring comfort to mankind.”

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