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Quote by Mario Puzo

“Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.”

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Mario Puzo was an American author known for his crime novels and family sagas. His 'The Godfather' series is one of the most famous novels of the 20th century, profoundly influencing popular culture. more

“If we affirm one moment, we thus affirm not only ourselves but all existence. For nothing is self-sufficient, neither in us ourselves nor in things; and if our soul has trembled with happiness and sounded like a harp string just once, all eternity was needed to produce this one event - and in this single moment of affirmation all eternity was called good, redeemed, justified, and affirmed.”

Ifs Soul Self Moments Existence Events Produce Needed Eternity Chaos Sufficient Strings Affirmation Justified Redeemed Harps Self Sufficient

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Be prepared for the worst, my love, for it lives next door to the best.”

Next Doors Worst Prepared Be Prepared

Book:The Complete Lumatere Chronicles

Source: The Complete Lumatere Chronicles

“In a way fighting was just like using magic. You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you could create damage and pain, cause tears to fall, drive people away, make yourself feel better, make your life worse.”

People Way Feels Said Pain Fall Fighting Universe Causes Magic Tears Damage Feel Better Altered

Book:The Magicians Trilogy

Source: The Magicians Trilogy

“I knew that I had been partially right in the storeroom above the bar on Christmas Day. Whoever I had become had to die.”

Dies Bars Christmas Christmas Day

Author:Craig Ferguson

“I had lived in fear of the fabled terrifying visions that assail chronic drinkers, but which had not yet attacked me.”

Vision Drinkers

Author:Craig Ferguson

“Whether I or anyone else accepted the concept of alcoholism as a disease didn't matter; what mattered was that when treated as a disease, those who suffered from it were most likely to recover.”

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Author:Craig Ferguson

“I found the prospect daunting, but somehow comforting, too, because the counselors insisted it could be done, and, after all, many of them were recovering alcoholics themselves.”

Done Found Comforting Alcoholics Recovering Counselor Recovering Alcoholics

Author:Craig Ferguson

“Is this place called Virgins? Well, I shouldn't be here! -Nina”

Wells Virgins Nina

Author:Lisi Harrison

“There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some gracious form, and let it tarry there for a moment; to hear one's own intellectual views echoed back to one with all the added music of passion and youth; to convey one's temperament into another as though it were a subtle fluid or a strange perfume: there was a real joy in that - perhaps the most satisfying joy left to us in an age so limited and vulgar as our own, an age grossly carnal in its pleasures, and grossly common in its aims.”

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays

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