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'Every saint has a past. Every sinner has a future.' - Anne Fine
'What doesn't kill you can only make you stronger.' - Anon
'Literature is a kind of writing which represents an organised violence committed on ordinary speech.' - Roman Jakobson
'To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best,
day and night, to make you
everyone else means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight;
and never stop fighting.' - E. E. Cummings
'Those who danced were thought quite insane by those who could not hear the music.' - Angela Monet
'Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.' -Anon
'No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. And therefore never send to know for whome the bell tolls: it tolls for thee.' John Donne
'Every saint has a past. Every sinner has a future.' - Anne Fine, 'The Tulip Touch.'
'What doesn't kill you can only make you stronger.'- Nietzsche
'Life might not be the party we had hoped for, but while we're here, we might as well dance.'
'...The gulf between how one should live and how one does live is so wise that a man who neglects what is actually done for what should be done leans the way to self-destruction rather than self-preservation.' - Machiavelli, 'The Prince.'
"In every drunkenness there comes that moment of madness and euphoria when all our accumulated knowledge of life and the world and ourselves seems a laughable misapprehension, and we realise suddenly that we are a genius, or fatally ill, or in love. The fact is obvious, simple, beyond doubt: why have we not seen it before? Then we sober up and everything evaporates, and we are again what we are, a frail, feckless, ridiculous figure with a headache." John Banville, "The Newton Letter"
'The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.' - Plutarch
'Every exit is an entrance somewhere.' - Tom Stoppard, 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead.'
'There is no lotion for the burn within.' - Sophie Hannah, 'The Burning Scheme.'
'How do you expect me to govern a country with 246 types of cheese?' - Charles de Gaulle
'You never see the end of the road while you're travelling.' Crowded House, 'Don't dream it's over.'
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