“Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it.”
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“I began to realize that for two years my life had been a drawing on resources that I did not possess, that I had been mortgaging myself physically and spiritually up to the hilt.”
“I want to die violently instead of fading out sentimentally.”
“I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.”
“In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod-always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults-rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.”
“Women, despite the fact that nine out of ten of them go through life with a death-bed air either of snatching-the-last-moment or with martyr-resignation, do not die tomorrow--or the next day. They have to live on to any one of many bitter ends.”
“Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! That Youths sweet-scented Manuscript should close!”
“This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg. It took me till noon to get my appetite back.”
“When he heard there was nothing to eat, he sat down and wept… “Why did I ever wake up!” he cried.”
“We set out to save the Shire, Sam and it has been saved - but not for me.”
“My friend, you had horses, and deed of arms, and the free fields; but she, being born in the body of a maid, had a spirit and courage at least the match of yours. Yet she was doomed to wait upon an old man, whom she loved as a father, and watch him falling into a mean dishonoured dotage; and her part seemed to her more ignoble than that of the staff he leaned on. -Gandalf to Eomer, of Eowyn”
“There is only one thing worse than training employees and losing them, and that's not training them and keeping them”
“Women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget.”
“Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow.”
“Istanbul is certainly in the process of transforming itself into an attractive cultural, tourist and financial center. But there are also millions of sad stories in this giant sea of immigration, poverty, misery and contradictions. So much anger, frustration and fury.”
“Work is external to the worker. . . . It is not part of his nature; consequently he does not fulfill himself in his work but denies himself. . . . The worker therefore feels himself at home only during his leisure time, whereas at work he feels homeless.”
“This was a manuscript of the night we couldn’t read.”
“All unprejudiced persons objectively surveying the grim events in Bangla Desh since March 25 have recognized the revolt of 75 million people, a people who were forced to the conclusion that neither their life, nor their liberty, to say nothing of the possibility of the pursuit of happiness, was available to them.”
“Most of my conscious efforts have ended in embarrassing failure.”
“My goal is to hit the gym every day I'm on vacation. Usually I just end up sleeping and drinking beer.”