"You must pay for everything in this world one way and another. There is nothing free except the Grace of God. You cannot earn that or deserve it."

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Source : Charles Portis (2011). “True Grit”, p.49, A&C Black

Charles Portis

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“Mmmm... the comedy that matters is the comedy you pull out of thin air. It's a bit like when something funny has happened and you try to explain it to someone else and end up saying, 'You had to be there.”

Source : "I'm not an interesting celebrity. I don't snort cocaine or wear women's underwear" by Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2007.
“the most all-around, practical, long-wearing illusions are the ones that you weave yourself.”

Source : Peg Bracken (1982). “A Window Over the Sink”, Avon Books
“Each environment has its own signature. Sound tells a story: You make choices about what you're hearing, where to look, how you want to feel about what's going on.”
“In the end it may well be that Britain will be honored by the historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it.”
“You don't need people's opinion on a fact.”

Source : "John Oliver & Bill Nye School Climate Change Skeptics On ‘Last Week Tonight’" by Katherine Fung, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 12, 2014.
“When you ask, Did writing change my life? It totally changed my life. It gave me my life.”
“A barrier to communication is something that keeps meanings from meeting.”
“I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me... but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch.”

Source : "Fictional character: Ty Cobb". "Cobb", www.imdb.com. 1994.

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