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“In this life you have to be your own hero. By that I mean you have to win whatever it is that matters to you by your own strength and in your own way. Like it or not, you are alone in a forest, just like all those fairy tales that begin with a hero who’s usually stupid but somehow brave, or who might be clever, but weak as a straw, and away he goes (don’t worry about the gender), cheered on by nobody, via the castles and the bears, and the old witch and the enchanted stream, and by and by (we hope) he’ll find the treasure.”
Source : Jeanette Winterson (2013). “The Powerbook”, p.155, Random House
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“Life isn’t fair. Fair is somewhere you go to ride the dodgems and win a goldfish. (from Rush of Blood)”
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“I couldn't care less if someone is gay or straight.”
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“I have a radar built inside me to avoid punches”
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“As you know, when Star Trek was canceled after the second season, it was the activism of the fans that revived it for a third season.”
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“My skin is dead good. I think it must be a combination of being in love and Lucozade.”
Source : Sue Townsend (1991). “Adrian Mole, from Minor to Major: The Mole Diaries : the First Ten Years”
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“Always eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or bed- no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters in your skull.”
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“Mercy more becomes a magistrate than the vindictive wrath which men call justice.”
