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“In Britain, a cup of tea is the answer to every problem. Fallen off your bicycle? Nice cup of tea. Your house has been destroyed by a meteorite? Nice cup of tea and a biscuit. Your entire family has been eaten by a Tyrannosaurus Rex that has travelled through a space/time portal? Nice cup of tea and a piece of cake. Possibly a savoury option would be welcome here too, for example a Scotch egg or a sausage roll.”

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David Walliams

David Walliams is a British comedian and author, born on August 20, 1971. Known for his unique sense of humor and imaginative storytelling, he has written several popular children's books. more

“If Gone With the Wind has a theme it is that of survival. What makes some people come through catastrophes and others, apparently just as able, strong, and brave, go under? It happens in every upheaval. Some people survive; others don't. What qualities are in those who fight their way through triumphantly that are lacking in those that go under? I only know that survivors used to call that quality 'gumption.' So I wrote about people who had gumption and people who didn't.”

People Ifs Knows Way Happens Able Used Fighting Strong Quality Gone Wind Survival Brave Theme Survivor Lacking Catastrophe Upheaval Gumption

Author:Margaret Mitchell

“If people can live through genocide and retain compassion, if they can take strength in pain, if they are able, still, to laugh, then certainly we can learn something from them.”

People Ifs Stills Able Pain Compassion Laughing Genocide

Author:Eric Greitens

“There's a natural instinct embedded in friendship, a sympathy that makes us willing to fight for someone we like when they are treated unjustly.”

Fighting Natural Willing Instinct Treated Embedded Natural Instinct

Author:Charles Duhigg

“So much of history is mystery. We don't know what is lost forever, what will surface again. All objects exist in a moment of time. And that fragment of time is preserved or lost or found in mysterious ways. Mystery is a wonderful part of life.”

Knows Way Moments Found Lost Forever Wonderful Mystery Objects Surface Mysterious Fragments Parts Of Life Mysterious Ways

Book:The Bonesetter's Daughter

Source: The Bonesetter's Daughter

“The Indian criminal justice system was a market like garbage, Abdul now understood. Innocence and guilt could be bought and sold like a kilo of polyurethane bags.”

Justice Understood Guilt Criminals Innocence Indian Bags Garbage Justice System Criminal Justice Criminal Justice System

Book:Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum

Source: Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum

“I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don't have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don't adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.”

Years Mind Kind Christian Universe Christ My Own Doubt Training Committed Nuclear Passages Physicist

Author:Jimmy Carter

“She was plain and far from skinny or petite. As for parties...she'd rather be alone in a corner somewhere reading. She hated being nice to people she didn't like because her father wanted contributions. She hated being fake. All she wanted was to be herself.”

People Wanted Reading Father Party Nice Corners Hated Fake Contribution Being Nice Skinny Petite Be Nice To People

Book:Unleash The Night

Source: Unleash The Night

“‎"It always seemed somehow less real here... a really detailed dream, but sort of washed out, like a thin watercolor. Softer, somehow, even with their electric light and engines and everything. I guess it was because there was hardly any magic.”

Real Dream Light Magic Engines Electric Electric Light Watercolors

Book:Lirael

Source: Lirael

“I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.”

Knowing Tired Knowing Nothing Tender Is The Night

Book:The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“Everything was good. But it was awful, too.”

Awful

Book:The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition

Source: The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition

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