"No mortal eye has ever fully seen a flash of lightning ... for no matter how firmly we look, our eyes are sure to be dazzled."

-- Berthold Auerbach

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“No man is quite so much a hero in the dark as in broad daylight, in solitude as in society, in the gloom of the churchyard as in the blaze of the drawing-room. The season and the place may be such as to oppress the stoutest heart with a mysterious awe, which, if not fear, is near akin to it.”

Source : WILLIAM H. PRESCOTT (1858). “BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL MISCELLANIES”, p.588
“Listen to how everyone is talking about you. You have to use it as fuel for motivation.”
“It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words.”

Source : "Off the Page: Anthony Doerr". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. October 14, 2004.
“Camping has become one of my most beloved pastimes. I take a fierce delight in swinging a pak o my back or into a canoe and heading for the hills or lakes. In my opinion, camping can be the greatest expression of free will, personal independence, innate ability, and resourcefulness possible today in our industrialized, urbanized existence. Regardless of how miserable or how splendid the circumstances, the sheer experience of camping seems a total justification for doing it.”
“The command of a large sum is a dangerous temptation to a national administration. Though accumulated at their expense, the people rarely, if ever profit by it: yet in point of fact, all value, and consequently, all wealth, originates with the people.”
“Have I done more for some today ? Than some have done for me ? If a person can answer yes at the end of a day, then that person has had a good day.”
“If I could be anyone, it would be Brad Pitt.”
“Few gynecologists recommend to their heterosexual patients the most foolpoof of solutions, namely, misterectomy.”

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