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“His mouth would have given despair to even the drollest of fools; it was a mouth made for frowns and scowls and sharply worded commands, all thin pale lips and clenched muscles, a mouth that had fo...”
“They watched the rain and downed their Cokes like a pair of diabetics in a suicide pact.”
“Certainly something had happened to me during the night. Or after months of tension I had arrived at the edge of some precipice and now I was falling, as in a dream slowly, even as I continued to h...”
“... A lobotomy involved some kind of rod or probe inserted through the eyesocket,the term was always "frontal" lobotomy;but was there any other kind?Knowing that internal stress could cause failure...”
“I would not have shied away from an assignment to sail a canoe around Cape Horn or to take charge of the government of Afghanistan.”
“Despair gives courage to a coward.”
“Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.”
“I went to Iraq because I wanted to see what one year of occupation had done to Iraqi society, and I went to the West Bank and Gaza Strip because I wanted to see what three generations of occupation...”
“Ail hope abandon ye who enter here.”
“Despair is the conclusion of fools.”
“Despair doubles our strength.”
“Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.”
“She wanted to lose herself in him. To tie his arms around her like a tourniquet.If she showed him how much she needed him, he'd run away.”
“Life ... is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing.”
“It is a curious thing, but as one travels the world getting older and older, it appears that happiness is easier to get used to than despair. The second time you have a root beer float, for instanc...”
“It is almost as if happiness is an acquired taste, like coconut cordial or ceviche, to which you can eventually become accustomed, but despair is something surprising each time you encounter it.”
“People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.”
“Those who make us believe that anything’s possible and fire our imagination over the long haul, are often the ones who have survived the bleakest of circumstances. The men and women who have every ...”
“Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed.”
“Despair is a free man—hope isa slave.”
