"Books are but stepping stones to show you where other minds have been."
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"I discovered that some things are written for us. It's not that we can't change our ancestral bearings, or that the path or purpose of any of our lives is really written in stone. But what tends to happen sometimes is the path is so deeply inscribed in the birth that it becomes you and every variation away from it brings you back in ways that you are not controlling."
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"I was really not familiar at all with Edward Snowden. I like to get that right out of the way and really learned most of what I know from Oliver's [Stones] script."
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"We are nearer neighbours to ourselves than whiteness to snow, or weight to stones."
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"They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling."
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"Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher."
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"When graves are covered with stones, the dead can no longer get out. But the dead can't go out anyway! What difference does it make whether they're covered with soil or stones?"
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"Every obstacle is a stepping stone. My good cannot be stopped."
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