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“You would think such a day would tremble to begin . . .”

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Thomas Harris, born on April 11, 1940, is a renowned American author known for his psychological thrillers. His most famous works include 'The Red Dragon', 'The Silence of the Lambs', and 'Hannibal'. more

“This is not just a simple story of "money can't buy happiness." Or maybe that's just what it is. And if it is, why shouldn't it be? Because if this is something we are already supposed to know, then why don't we know it? Why do we chase and scrabble and fight for things to flaunt, why? Why do we reach for power over other people, and through the thin superiority of our possessions, believe we have it? Why do we let money make people bigger, and allow those without it to be made smaller? How did we lose the truth in the frantic, tribal drumbeat of more, more, more?”

People Ifs Knows Believe Made Stories Fighting Loses Simple Bigger Possession Superiority Frantic Money Can't Buy Happiness Scrabble Power Over Others

Book:The Fortunes of Indigo Skye

Source: The Fortunes of Indigo Skye

“In spite of all evidence that life is discontinuous, a valley of rifts, and that random chance plays a great part in our fates, we go on believing in the continuity of things, in causation and meaning. But we live on a broken mirror, and fresh cracks appear in its surface every day.”

Believe Play Life Is Chance Fate Broken Goes On Evidence Mirrors Surface Spite Cracks Valleys Continuity Causation Rift Random Chance

Author:Salman Rushdie

“Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.”

Giving Should Mean Play Justice Deals Powerful Economy Fate Giving Up Cards Not Giving Up Maximum Fate Destiny Fate And Destiny Life Fate Maximum Potential

Author:Les Brown

“The only people who see the whole picture,' he murmured, 'are the ones who step out of the frame.”

People Whole Steps Whole Picture

Book:The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel

Source: The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel

“To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.”

Thinking Sage Paraphrase

Book:Regarding the Pain of Others

Source: Regarding the Pain of Others

“[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.”

Persons Barbarians

Book:Regarding the Pain of Others

Source: Regarding the Pain of Others

“They lived in a great city, a metropolis of many narratives that converged briefly and then separated for ever, discovering their different dooms in that crowd of stories through which all of us, following our own destinies, had to push and shove to find our way through, or out.”

Way Different Stories Cities Destiny Crowds Following Narrative Discovering Doom Great Cities Metropolis

Book:The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel

Source: The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel

“But love is what we want, not freedom. Who then is the unluckier man? The beloved, who is given his heart's desire and must for ever after fear its loss, or the free man, with his unlooked-for liberty, naked and alone between the captive armies of the earth?”

Men Want Heart Earth Desire Given Loss Love Is Liberty Army Naked Beloved Free Man Ever After Captives

Book:The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel

Source: The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel

“To laugh is to live profoundly.”

Laughing Chaos

Author:Milan Kundera

“To the last we have learned nothing. In all of us, deep down, there seems to be something granite and unteachable. No one truly believes, despite the hysteria in the streets that the world of tranquil certainties we were born into is about to be extinguished.”

World Believe Seems Lasts Born Streets Despite Certainty Deep Down Tranquil Hysteria Granite

Book:Waiting for the Barbarians: A Novel

Source: Waiting for the Barbarians: A Novel

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