"My imagination doesn't require anything more of the book than to provide a framework within which it can wander."

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Source : Alphonse Daudet (2018). “In the Land of Pain”, p.17, Random House

Alphonse Daudet

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“If the virgin Mary had an abortion, I'd still be carried in a chariot of stampeding horses.”
“When I was young, my father used to say, â€˜If you are alive, there is hope for a better day and something good to happen. If there is nothing good left in the destiny of a person, he or she will die.â€™ I thought about these words during my journey, and they kept me moving even when I didnâ€™t know where I was going. Those words became the vehicle that drove my spirit forward and made it stay alive.”

Source : Ishmael Beah (2007). “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier”, p.54, Sarah Crichton Books
“If you're really a mean person you're going to come back as a fly and eat poop.”
“If you can read and have more imagination than a doorknob, what need do you have for a 'movie version' of a novel?”
“Investing is forgoing consumption now in order to have the ability to consume more at a later date.”
“No matter how many Christmas presents you give your child, there's always that terrible moment when he's opened the very last one. That's when he expects you to say, 'Oh yes, I almost forgot,' and take him out and show him the pony.”
“When you're doing a radio show, you can express yourself.”
“Do you fear death? Do you fear that dark abyss? All your deeds laid bare. All your sins punished. I can offer you...an escape.”

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