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“Neither fear nor self-interest can convert the soul. They may change the appearance, perhaps even the conduct, but never the object of supreme desire... Fear is the motive which constrains the slav...”
“Courage is fear that has said its prayers.”
“If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.”
“Unable to attribute misfortune to chance, unable to accept their ultimate insignificance within the greater scheme, the people looked for monsters in their midst.”
“Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect. As I have already said, religious fundamentalism was on the rise, but that is not the type of superstition I am refer...”
“... from our vantage point it is now clear that the only thing the population had to fear was fear itself.”
“When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, ...”
“In heaven an angel is no one in particular.”
“But fate, as Merlin always taught us, is inexorable. Life is a jest of the Gods, Merlin liked to claim, and there is no justice. You must learn to laugh, he once told me, or else you'll just weep y...”
“You will not say how you are haunted by the faces of the men you killed, how in their last gasp of life they sought your pity and you had none. You will not speak of the boys who died screaming for...”
“Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”
“You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?”
“The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.”
“Millions saw the apple fall, Newton was the only one who asked why?”
“A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.”
“Never follow the crowd.”
“When I don't feel hurt, I hope they bury me.”
“Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.”
“Virtually everyone needs motivation of some sort, but when you are in love - that is motivation enough, it turns many into poets and painters, it spurs the creativity in you.”
“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.”
