"It is always easy enough to take up arms, but very difficult to lay them down; the commencement and the termination of war are notnecessarily in the same hands; even a coward may begin, but the end comes only when the victors are willing."

-- Sallust

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“We are in the world to laugh. In purgatory or in hell we shall no longer be able to do so. And in heaven it would not be proper.”
“You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.”

Source : Ann Brashares (2005). “Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood”, Delacorte Books for Young Readers
“What is acted out on the female body parallels the larger practices of domination, fragmentation, and conquest against the earth body, which is being polluted, strip-mined, deforested, and cut up into parcels of private property. Equally, this pattern points to the fragmentation of the psyche, which ultimately underlies and enables all of this damage.”
“I love the casting process. It's a cliché but I think it's the most important part of the process. I really enjoy it too. I love putting that jigsaw puzzle of people together.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Never grieve for me if it is my good fortune to die with my boots on. That's what I most hope for.”

Source : Letter to Gilbert Grosvenor, 1948.
“Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.”

Source : Twitter post from Jul 22, 2012
“You've never told me about your love life, Scarlett. You're a very pretty girl. You must have a boy shacked up somewhere for your personal delights. I'd bet it's a booky one, overtones of Harry Potter and a lot of black T-shirts.”
“Our response to an event is more important than the event itself.”

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