“Joy—that’s the word. So easy to say, so hard to find in life sometimes.”
― James Patterson, quote from Cat and Mouse
“Victory belongs to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. Soneji”
― James Patterson, quote from Cat and Mouse
“of life’s important connections and mysteries. I was hoping that maybe someday she would”
― James Patterson, quote from Cat and Mouse
“Society prepares the crime; the criminal only commits it.”
― James Patterson, quote from Cat and Mouse
“Death is nature’s way of saying “howdy.” Statues”
― James Patterson, quote from Cat and Mouse
“Victory belongs to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.”
― James Patterson, quote from Cat and Mouse
“The Chinese had a saying that had been in her mind for a while, troubling her: Society prepares the crime; the criminal only commits it.”
― James Patterson, quote from Cat and Mouse
“A FLAT, still sandy, still meadowy region… a superb range of ocean beach—miles and miles of it. The bright sun, the sparkling waves, the foam, the view—a sail here and there in the distance. Walt Whitman had written that”
― James Patterson, quote from Cat and Mouse
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“انظر! نصف هؤلاء الذين تراهم على الأقل قبيحون! أن يكون المرء قبيحًا! هل هذا أيضًا جزء من حقوق الإنسان؟ وهل تعرف أنه يحمل قبحه طيلة حياته؟ دون أية راحة؟ جنسك أيضًا، أنت لم تختره. ولم تختر لون عينيك ولا القرن الذى تحيا فيه. ولا بلدك. ولا أمك. لا أى شئ مهم. الحقوق التى يمكن أن يحصل عليها إنسان لا تتعلق إلا بتفاهات وليس ثمة سبب للصراع حولها أو كتابة إعلانات شهيرة عنها.”
― Milan Kundera, quote from The Festival of Insignificance
“What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide.
"That is because I know what life is," said Martin.”
― Voltaire, quote from Candide: or, Optimism
“Right now universes are being created, thrown together and destroyed the world over. Seven billion souls, each preoccupied with their own unique reality, each with a head full of memories, plans, learned knowledge and accumulated trivia; birthdays, telephone numbers, bus routes, passwords. Each one with somewhere to go, something they need to get done. They all have birth certificates and shoe sizes. Every single one has a story.”
― Graeme Cameron, quote from Normal
“The diplomatic kids had a hectic sort of life, being constantly thrown from one end of the world to the other and always playing tennis, no matter who was being machine-gunned in the streets, you were always extraterritorial, history was not permitted to touch you, it was only buzzing around your tennis court in a bloody sort of way. You were so well protected that you went to pieces. Diplomatic immunity could do very strange things to you, it was like weightlessness. You had to remind yourself constantly that you actually existed, and you were not supposed to identify yourself too much with the suffering of whatever country you were posted to. But then, who needs reality anyway?”
― Romain Gary, quote from The Ski Bum
“Нужно знать, что одно значительное лицо недавно сделался значительным лицом, а до того времени он был незначительным лицом. Впрочем, место его и теперь не почиталось значительным в сравнении с другими, еще значительнейшими. Но всегда найдется такой круг людей, для которых незначительное в глазах прочих есть уже значительное”
― Nikolai Gogol, quote from The Overcoat
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