“Just remember, when someone has an accent, it means that he knows one more language than you do.”
“Even when lightning flashes inside them [clouds], we say they are only clouds and turn our attention to the next meal, next pain, next breath, the next page. This is how we go on.”
“If you believe in what you are doing, then you must fight for it. You must stay. Do not let anyone frighten you away.”
“In the end, each of us is alone, but in the meantime, we must all huddle together to give one another comfort and warmth.”
“It's coming face to face with death that magnifies the values of life force..”
“Mindfulness must be engaged. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. Otherwise, what's the use of seeing?”
“For to sit in a room full of books, and remember the stories they told you, and to know precisely where each one is located and what was happening in your life at time or where you were when you first read it is the languid and distilled pleasure of the connoisseur.”
“Nobody can hate man more than man.”
“In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak?”
“...you can't put nothing past these southern boys. They just sit around waiting for somebody to kill their brother so they can get started on some vengeance. It's like a dang vocation with them”
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