"I read to be alone. I read so as not to be alone."

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Source : Bich Minh Nguyen (2008). “Stealing Buddha's Dinner”, p.92, Penguin

Bich Minh Nguyen

“There is great power in prayer. I strongly encourage personal and family prayer, which are important in building strong families. I'm wondering if many of you parents, you couples, have lost that essential moment of kneeling together at the end of the day, just the two of you, holding hands and saying your prayers. If that has slipped away from your daily routine, may I suggest you put it back-beginning tonight!”
“There is no such thing as a normal period of history. Normality is a fiction of economic textbooks.”
“I think I'm going to put together a compilation under Disney's name of my songs that I've done for them - because I've done six or seven by now! The latest was for the Princess Diaries 2 soundtrack. So that's the next thing that's coming out.”
“Bumblestripe: â€œI think we showed them.â€ Hazeltail: â€œShowed them what? How much blood can be spilled in a pointless battle?”
“A liar lies to others. A fool lies to herself.”
“No price is too great to pay for inner peace.”
“We dont see that the Taliban ultimately can succeed, and its a combination both of what the international community can do to support Afghanistan, not just in the short term, but over the long term.”
“The shots had dispersed the birds; there remained only two marabous, standing between ten and twenty paces away and plunged in reverie. They were like two old men with bald heads pressed between the shoulders.”

Source : Henryk Sienkiewicz (1898). “Sielanka: A Forest Picture, and Other Stories”

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