"If Tolstoy were alive today and working at Panopticon Insurance, he'd say that all insurance companies are the same, then throw himself through an eighteenth story window and plunge to his death in a hail of glass and shattered dignity" (70)."

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Source : Paul Neilan (2007). “Apathy and Other Small Victories: A Novel”, p.70, Macmillan

Paul Neilan

#Glasses Quotes #Stories Quotes #Alive Quotes

“There are many things in life more worthwhile than money. One is to be brought up in this our England which is still the envy of less happy lands.”
“Just as in prayer it is not we who momentarily catch His attention, but He ours, so when we fail to hear His voice, it is not because He is not speaking so much as that we are not listening. We must recognize that all things are in God and that God is in all things, and we must learn to be very attentive, in order to bear God speaking in His ordinary tone without any special accent.”
“I'm a genius. I'm like Prince.”
“The evil done by men of goodwill is the worst of all ... We have done terrible things, for the best of reasons, and that makes it worse.”

Source : Iain Pears (2003). “Dream of Scipio”, p.321, Penguin
“The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.”
“The secret of praying is praying in secret. A sinning man will stop praying, and a praying man will stop sinning.”
“I think we came out and got the first goals fairly easily and fairly quickly. All of a sudden they started to change the defense and they changed things up on us and I thought we got a little too comfortable. I give their goalie credit, he made some very good saves, but we just wanted to score. We changed some things halfway through the fourth quarter and we were able to generate some shots. I think for most of the year we've been good on offense. We haven't really struggled like that. We knew coming into the season that we'd have to share the ball on offense and really be efficient.”
“The decision to relax rather than to grip, even in the face of impatience or fear, is a conscious and brave choice.”

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