"We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom"

-- Iris Murdoch

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“You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do.”

Source : Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography”, p.49, Vanderbilt University Press
“Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity; there is no cure for this but experience, if indeed there is any cure for it at all.”
“A blessed companion is a book--a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend...a book that, at a touch, pours its heart into your own.”
“Never follow the crowd. Go where it's empty.”

Source : Arnold Schwarzenegger (2012). “Total Recall”, p.766, Simon and Schuster
“If you get rid of all these giveaways and loopholes and deductions and credits, then you can sharply lower the rates.”
“I had a weimaraner for 11 years called China, and he was a great dog, a bit mad. They're massive, weimaraners; they've got big floppy ears. They look like a pointer, but they're liver-coloured.”
“As surgeons keep their instruments and knives always at hand for cases requiring immediate treatment, so shouldst thou have thy thoughts ready to understand things divine and human, remembering in thy every act, even the smallest, how close is the bond that unites the two.”
“I'm a huge fan of basically anything written about complicated, contradictory women. I'm drawn to them really quickly.”

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