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“And never, ever, no matter what else you do in your whole life, never sleep with anyone whose troubles are worse than your own.”

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Nelson Algren

Nelson Algren was an American film writer born on March 28, 1909, and died on May 9, 1981. He is known for his profound depiction of the lives of the underclass in American society. more

“Memories are like a still life painted by ten different student artists: some will be blue-based; others red; some will be as stark as Picasso and others as rich as Rembrandt; some will be foreshortened and others distant. Recollections are in the eye of the beholder; no two held up side by side will ever quite match.”

Stills Two Different Eye Artist Sides Memories Rich Students Ten Red Blue Recollection Starks Beholder Still Life Eye Of The Beholder

Book:Vanishing Acts

Source: Vanishing Acts

“All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.”

Able Literature Willing

Author:Franz Kafka

“I give you five minutes to spare your blushes. here is the little bronze key that opens the ebony caskets on the mantle piece in the Louise-Phillipe room. In one of the caskets you will find a scorpion, in the other, a grasshopper, both very cleverly imitated in Japanese bronze: they will say yes or no for you. If you turn the scorpion round, that will mean to me, when I return that you have said yes. The grasshopper will mean no... The grasshopper, be careful of the grass hopper! A grasshopper does not only turn: it hops! It hops! And it hops jolly high!”

Ifs Giving Mean Littles Doe Said Turns Rooms Five Pieces Minutes Keys Return Rounds Careful Grass Hops Be Careful Spares Five Minutes Bronze Jolly Yes Or No Scorpions Caskets Grasshoppers

Author:Gaston Leroux

“Erik ! Erik! I saved your life! Remember!You were sentenced to death! But for me, you would be dead now!”

Would Be Remember Saved Remember You Remembers You

Author:Gaston Leroux

“People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion.”

People Inspirational Opinion Mouths Independent Independent Thought

Author:Anne Frank

“With an annual investment of $66 billion by 2007, we can save 8 million lives each year.”

Years Millions Sea Investment Billions Annuals

Author:Gro Harlem Brundtland

“Carry a candle in the dark, be a candle in the dark, know that you're a flame in the dark.”

Knows Dark Flames Candle

Author:Ivan Illich

“Maybe you're going insane." "Maybe," agreed Kernel. "I was joking." "I wasn't.”

Insane Kernel

Author:Darren Shan

“I believe that anyone can be successful in life, regardless of natural talent or the environment within which we live. This is not based on measuring success by human competitiveness for wealth, possessions, influence, and fame, but adhering to God's standards of truth, justice, humility, service, compassion, forgiveness, and love.”

Source: The Jimmy Carter Library

“To think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral down into ever increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is one of the things that discipline and training is all about.”

Ifs Thinking World Mind Effort Discipline Training Unhappiness Good Thoughts Spirals Bad Thoughts

Book:SHOGUN

Source: SHOGUN

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