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A heroic, losing battle! I'm tired of brave men who die. There's nothing pretty about losing. — Warren Eyster

When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly. — Sappho

It's very much the currency of discourse on social media where political disagreements very quickly become very personalised. — Nicola Sturgeon

Now suppose that at the end of the page you get another instruction: count all the commas in the next page. This will be harder, because you will have to overcome the newly acquired tendency to focus attention on the letter f. — Daniel Kahneman

Remember this: a simple pen is much more swift and much more precise than a camera. That's my advice to both beginning and experienced authors: don't write with a camera. A camera is slow. All these modern writers usually make the same mistake - they write books with a film in mind. When you read their works, you don't hear the voice of a real author, you hear that horribly cheesy Hollywood voice-over. Frankly, that's not a novel, it's a movie script. If you write books, use a pen. A pen is swift, it has tempo, you can kill people with it. You cannot kill people with a camera, you can only perhaps bore them to death with it. — Martijn Benders

To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things. — Will Durant

How much of life have I missed, he wondered, simply by failing to look? Or by looking and not seeing? — Irvin D. Yalom

In other words? The bitch had it coming.
And I am that bitch. — Jen Lancaster

It's strange," he said, "when he was alive, I didna pay him much heed. But once he was dead, the things he'd told me had a good deal more influence. — Diana Gabaldon