"It is through chance that, from among the various individuals of which each of us is composed, one emerges rather than another."

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Source : Henry de Montherlant (1960). “Selected Essays”, London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson

Henry de Montherlant

#Chance Quotes #Individual Quotes #Various Quotes

“Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.”
“Everything necessary to understand my grandfather lies between two stories: the story of the tigerâ€™s wife, and the story of the deathless man. These stories run like secret rivers through all the other stories of his life â€“ of my grandfatherâ€™s days in the army; his great love for my grandmother; the years he spent as a surgeon and a tyrant of the University. One, which I learned after his death, is the story of how my grandfather became a man; the other, which he told to me, is of how he became a child again.”

Source : Tea Obreht (2011). “The Tiger's Wife”, p.15, Hachette UK
“Mabutt has now played seven consecutive games for England, this is his seventh”
“Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.”
“But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.”
“We find just as many things to rip on the left as we do on the right. People on the far-left and the far-right are the same exact person to us.”

Source : "Trey Parker and Matt Stone, Americans" by A.J. Jacobs, www.esquire.com. November 16, 2011.
“Buy what you donâ€™t have yet, or what you really want, which can be mixed with what you already own. Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.”
“Any grand new dictionary ought itself to be a democratic product, a book that demonstrated the primacy of individual freedoms, of the notion that one could use words freely, as one liked, without hard and fast rules of lexical conduct.”

Source : Simon Winchester (1998). “The surgeon of Crowthorne: a tale of murder, madness and the love of words”

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