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“The goal of all my work is essentially the same: demonstrating that magic is real or that reality is magic, by paying attention, and finding compensation or consolation for what is essentially a tragic existence.”
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“You know what I think? If I am tired now, I don't mind, because I have eternity to rest.”
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“Science fiction is the characteristic literary genre of the century. It is the genre that stands in opposition to literary modernism.”
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“Hope is practiced through the virtue of patience, which continues to do good even in the face of apparent failure, and through the virtue of humility, which accepts God's mystery and trusts him even at times of darkness.”
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“Of all social institutions language is least amenable to initiative. It blends with the life of society, and the latter, inert by nature, is a prime conservative force.”
Source : Ferdinand de Saussure, Wade Baskin (2011). “Course in General Linguistics”, p.74, Columbia University Press
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“If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: misheard, blurred, fragmentary.”
Source : Sarah Churchwell (2013). “Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby”, p.71, Hachette UK
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“The Japanese position was hopeless even before the first atomic bomb fell because the Japanese had lost control of their own air.”
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“It's always harder to maintain raw enthusiasm or joy than to go into a really dark place.”
Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
