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“Normal! He thought. Normal! I don't want things to be normal. Normal is always being left out, never belonging.”

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Paul Stewart (1955-1986) was a British writer known for his unique literary style and rich imagination. His works spanned across genres such as fantasy, adventure, and children's literature, enjoying great popularity among readers. more

“Above all, he liked it that everything was one's own fault. There was only oneself to praise or blame. Luck was a servant and not a master. Luck had to be accepted with a shrug or taken advantage of up to the hilt. But it had to be understood and recognized for what it was and not confused with a faulty appreciation of the odds, for, at gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck. And luck in all its moods had to be loved and not feared”

Source: Casino Royale

“Luck in all its moods had to be loved and not feared Bond saw luck as a woman, to be softly wooed or brutally ravaged, never pandered to or pursued. But he was honest enough to admit that he had never yet been made to suffer by cards or by women. One day, and he accepted the fact he would be brought to his knees by love or by luck.”

Love Made Enough Facts Would Be Age Suffering Saws Honest One Day Luck Accepted Mood Cards Knees Pursued Casino Royale

Author:Ian Fleming

“There was an air of indifference about them, a calm produced by the gratification of every passion; and through their manners were suave, one could sense beneath them that special brutality which comes from the habit of breaking down half-hearted resistances that keep one fit and tickle one’s vanity—the handling of blooded horses, the pursuit of loose women.”

Source: Madame Bovary: Patterns of Provincial Life

“Sometimes, making the wrong choice is better than making no choice. You have the courage to go forward, that is rare. A person who stands at the fork, unable to pick, will never get anywhere.”

Persons Sometimes Choices Courage Picks Forks Wrong Choices

Book:Wizard's First Rule

Source: Wizard's First Rule

“It was at once a miracle and the most natural thing in the world.”

World Natural Miracle Natural Things

Book:Three plays

Source: Three plays

“I grew up in traditional black patriarchal culture and there is no doubt that I’m going to take a great many unconscious, but present, patriarchal complicities to the grave because it so deeply ensconced in how I look at the world. Therefore, very much like alcoholism, drug addiction, or racism patriarchy is a disease and we are in perennial recovery and relapse. So you have to get up every morning and struggle against it.”

Source: Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life

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