“Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it”
― Sara Shepard, quote from Wanted
“Or perhaps all those things you missed upon first glance mean much more than you could ever guess.”
― Sara Shepard, quote from Wanted
“Penn station", Ali said to the driver, slamming the door. Then she turned back to Hanna. "We ditch the bitches", she said. "And then we take them down".”
― Sara Shepard, quote from Wanted
“Truth is stranger than fiction, after all.”
― Sara Shepard, quote from Wanted
“Get ready to meet your maker. It won’t be long now. Kisses! A (the real one)”
― Sara Shepard, quote from Wanted
“When Courtney appeared from the hallway, a whisper of a smile emerged on her eerily familiar face; Spencer’s legs dissolved into Jell-O. Aria let out a small squeak.”
― Sara Shepard, quote from Wanted
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“Everything is possible. You once told me not too long ago we should always have hope and I do.”
― T.S. Krupa, quote from Safe & Sound
“Concluiu de nada adiantar sua sacrificada labuta, aproveitou uns dias de inverno mais úmido para adquirir uma pneumonia barata — “nem sequer uma pneumonia dupla”, ironizou dr. Carlos Passos — e emigrou para o astral. Silenciosamente, numa tosse discreta e tímida. Fosse outro e poderia ter escapado, ter vencido a doença, pouco mais do que uma gripe. Gil, porém, estava cansado, tão cansado!, não se dispunha a esperar doença séria e grave. Além do mais, não tinha ilusões: doença de qualidade, importante, moléstia da moda, cara, falada nos jornais, não chegaria para ele, o melhor era mesmo contentar-se com sua mesquinha pneumonia. Assim o fez e, sem se despedir, faltou com o corpo, descansou.”
― Jorge Amado, quote from Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
“Those fighting for free enterprise and free competition do not defend the interests of those rich today. They want a free hand left to unknown men who will be the entrepreneurs of tomorrow and whose ingenuity will make the life of coming generations more agreeable. They want the way left open to further economic improvements. They are the spokesmen of progress.”
― Ludwig von Mises, quote from Human Action: A Treatise on Economics
“Nothing is permanent in my mysterious world, even my moments of belief - Jenifer”
― Durgesh Satpathy, quote from Equating the Equations of Insanity: A Journey from Grief to Victory
“Young people," McDonald said contemptuously. "You always think there's something to find out."
"Yes, sir," Andrews said.
"Well, there's nothing," McDonald said. "You get born, and you nurse on lies, and you get weaned on lies, and you learn fancier lies in school. You live all your life on lies, and then maybe when you're ready to die, it comes to you--that there's nothing, nothing but yourself and what you could have done. Only you ain't done it, because the lies told you there was something else. Then you know you could of had the world, because you're the only one that knows the secret; only then it's too late. You're too old."
"No," Andrews said. A vague terror crept from the darkness that surrounded them, and tightened his voice. "That's not the way it is."
"You ain't learned, then," McDonald said. "You ain't learned yet....look. You spend nearly a year of your life and sweat, because you have faith in the dream of a fool. And what have you got? Nothing. You kill three, four thousand buffalo, and stack their skins neat; and the buffalo will rot wherever you left them, and the rats will nest in the skins. What have you got to show? A year gone out of your life, a busted wagon that a beaver might use to make a dam with, some calluses on your hands, and the memory of a dead man."
"No," Andrew said. "That's not all. That's not all I have."
"Then what? What have you got?"
Andrews was silent.
"You can't answer. Look at Miller. Knows the country he was in as well as any man alive, and had faith in what he believed was true. What good did it do him? And Charley Hoge with his Bible and his whisky. Did that make your winter any easier, or save your hides? And Schneider. What about Schneider? Was that his name?
"That was his name," Andrews said.
"And that's all that's left of him," McDonald said. "His name. And he didn't even come out of it with that for himself." McDonald nodded, not looking at Andrews. "Sure, I know. I came out of it with nothing, too. Because I forgot what I learned a long time ago. I let the lies come back. I had a dream, too, and because it was different from yours and Miller's, I let myself think it wasn't a dream. But now I know, boy. And you don't. And that makes all the difference.”
― John Williams, quote from Butcher's Crossing
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