"At the end of the day, despite all the other great things that literature does in society and in a person's life, I think that we read to escape. And I think that place, more than anything, provides that escape quickly, if an author is engaged with the place."

-- Tea Obreht

#Thinking Quotes #The End Of The Day Quotes #Literature Quotes

“With each sadness a woman gets more beautiful. I wonder if with each sadness a man gets stronger.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If you think about it, we are always centered in the middle of chaos. It never goes away.”
“A political system seeking to function amongst ignorant, illiterate and barbaric people could have marvelous principles but could only succeed in being ignorant, illiterate and barbaric unless one addressed the people one by one and cured the ignorance, illiteracy and barbarism of each citizen.”
“I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins.”
“The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best.”

Source : Waverley Root (1996). “Food”, William S. Konecky Associates
“After an age of leaves and feathers someone dead thought of the mountain as money and cut the trees that were here and the wind and the rain at night. It is hard to say it.”
“The only thing I hate worse than prophecy is self-fulfilling prophecy”
“The Germans may take Paris, but that will not prevent me from going on with the war. We will fight on the Loire, we will fight on the Garronne, we will fight even in the Pyrenees. And if at last we are driven off the Pyrenees, we will continue the war at sea.”

Source : Quoted in J. Hampden Jackson, Clemenceau and the Third Republic (1946)

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