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#541

“You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

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#542

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

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#543

“Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

tags: life

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#544

“Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

tags: attitude, fire, hope, inspirational, persistence

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#545

“What kind of idea are you? Are you the kind that compromises, does deals, accomodates itself to society, aims to find a niche, to survive; or are you the cussed, bloody-minded, ramrod-backed type of damnfool notion that would rather break than sway with the breeze? – The kind that will almost certainly, ninety-nine times out of hundred, be smashed to bits; but, the hundredth time, will change the world.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

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#546

“The difference between a simpleton and an intelligent man, according to the man who is convinced that he is of the latter category, is that the former wholeheartedly accepts all things that he sees and hears while the latter never admits anything except after a most searching scrutiny. He imagines his intelligence to be a sieve of closely woven mesh through which nothing but the finest can pass. ”
― R. K. Narayan

tags: writerly-life

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#547

“Friendship was another illusion like love, though it did not reach the same mad heights. People pretended that they were friends, when the fact was they were brought together by force of circumstances.”
― R.K. Narayan, The Bachelor of Arts

tags: friendship, illusion, love

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#548

“We always question the bonafides of the man who tells us unpleasant facts.”
― R. K. Narayan

tags: writerly-life

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#549

“It's a saying they have, that a man has a false heart in his mouth for the world to see, another in his breast to show to his special friends and his family, and the real one, the true one, the secret one, which is never known to anyone except to himself alone, hidden only God knows where.”
― James Clavell, Shōgun

tags: culture, inner-self, japan, psychology

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#550

“Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

tags: greatness

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#551

“I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

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#552

“Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

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#553

“Revenge is a dish that tastes best when served cold.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

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#554

“The lawyer with the briefcase can steal more money than the man with the gun.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

tags: gangster

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#555

“I don't trust society to protect us, I have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a block of people to vote for them.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

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#556

“Never let anyone know what you are thinking.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

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#557

“Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

tags: life

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#558

“Behind every successful fortune there is a crime.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

tags: behind, crime, every, fortune, successful

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#559

“Time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty!”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

tags: the-godfather

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#560

“Why should I be afraid now? Strange men have come to kill me ever since I was twelve years old.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

tags: corleone, don, godfather, mario, puzo, vito

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#561

“There are things that have to be done and you do them and you never talk about them. You don't try to justify them. They can't be justified. You just do them. Then you forget it.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

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#562

“As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: faith, wisdom

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#563

“Lest we forget:

It is easy to be human, very hard to be humane”
― Mirza Ghalib

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#564

“sharab peene de masjid mein beth kar,
Yaa woh jagha bata jahan Khuda nahin..”
― Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

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#565

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
― Kahlil Gibran

tags: scars, souls, suffering

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#566

“In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: humor, politics, stupidity

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#567

“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: atheism, organized-religion, religion

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#568

“Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

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#569

“Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: popular

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#570

“If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: atheism, religion, sun

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