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Sometimes you receive a knock in action: it may be your death-wound or just a scratch — Patrick O'Brian

There's always a thin line between life and death. I am somewhere in between, walking to my destination. — Aishah Madadiy

In truth, man is a polluted river. One must be a sea to receive a polluted river without becoming defiled. I bring you the Superman! He is that sea; in him your great contempt can be submerged. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Most folks here got rules 'bout trespassing. Warning shot's fired right close to the head. Get they's attention. Next shot gets a lot more personal. Now I'm too old to waste time firing a warning shot ... — David Baldacci

We need to keep this Labour government, it has a good chance of another term. — Clare Short

Yeah, but for me, see, Jack was everything. I was alive again, I mattered. So after that I was polite." "Polite? Oh, you mean with - " "It was all about keeping Jack safe." "Was it agonizingly hard to be, as you put it, polite?" Ma shakes her head. "I did it on autopilot, you know, Stepford Wife." The — Emma Donoghue

If you will here stop and ask yourselves why you are not as pious as the primitive Christians were, your own heart will tell you, that it is neither through ignorance nor inability, but purely because you never thoroughly intended it. — William Law

I take literature as a really serious human activity. It's not just a playful thing. It can be hilarious and wonderful and performative, but I think it's really serious. — David Shields

There is such a thing as anesthesia of pain, engendered by pain too exquisite to be borne. — Jack London

I think I governed effectively. I don't have any doubts about that. I had the benefit, when I was in office, of having an excellent relationship with the Republican Party. We had superb bipartisan support and we had the highest batting average of any president since the Second World War, except Lyndon Johnson. He had a little better average than I did. — Jimmy Carter

Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration. — Roald Dahl

There's a lot of unconscious activity that goes on I think in the composition of a poem. — Billy Collins