"The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune."

-- Roberto Bolano

#World Quotes #Alive Quotes #Fortune Quotes

“I think it's always good when you're able to, as an actor, allow your work to be some kind of a conduit for social discourse, and an examination of where we are, as a society.”
“And no-one has ever questioned the courage of the Dwarves.”

Source : Markus Heitz (2010). “The Dwarves”, Hachette UK
“The laws of certain states . . . give an ownership in the service of Negroes as personal property . . . . But being men, by the laws of God and nature, they were capable of acquiring liberty - and when the captor in war . . . thought fit to give them liberty, the gift was not only valid, but irrevocable.”
“MÃ©ret's Oppenheim art was aesthetically beautiful. Drinking champagne and eating a cherry off some tits, this is no big deal really.”
“There is not a formula for the way that God heals. There's not a timetable.”
“I used to be an obsessive outliner - figuring that writing without an outline was like jumping off a cliff and building a parachute on the way down.”
“Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.”
“She, too, had worn a mask in assuming a contempt for him, whilst, as a matter of fact, she completely misunderstood him”

Source : Baroness Orczy (2015). “The Scarlet Pimpernel”, p.143, Xist Publishing

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