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There are no maps. You can't map a sense of humor. — Terry Pratchett

Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun. — Brian Wilson

A film is different than a script. The text of the script is what it is. — John Curran

Many thieves. One Greywaren. — Maggie Stiefvater

One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers. — Agatha Christie

There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday. — John L. Phillips

I have written only what I have thought through, felt through and suffered through. — Vasily Grossman

The world of the human soul suddenly seemed so vast as to make even the raging war seen insignificant. — Vasily Grossman

I've realized now that hope almost never goes together with reason. It's something quite irrational and instinctive. — Vasily Grossman

The country had seen mighty tractors and skyscrapers...There was only one thing Russia had not seen during this thousand years: freedom. — Vasily Grossman

He was dimly aware that if you wish to remain a human being under Fascism, there is an easier option than survival
death. — Vasily Grossman

The thing that got me through the worst of my teen years was running and the piano. — Deborah Reber

There's nothing more difficult than saying goodbye to a house where you've suffered. — Vasily Grossman

In the blank wall of the world's indifference there had appeared a tiny snakelike fissure — Vasily Grossman

He was endowed with the extraordinary powers of endurance characteristic of madmen and simpletons. — Vasily Grossman

Why do people have memories? It would be easier to die - anything to stop remembering. — Vasily Grossman

Freedom is the direct opposite of necessity; freedom is necessity overcome. — Vasily Grossman

The longer a nation's history, the more wars, invasions, wanderings, and periods of captivity it has seen-the greater the diversity of its faces. — Vasily Grossman

Three fishers went sailing away to the west,/ Away to the west as the sun went down. — Charles Kingsley

In great hearts the cruelty of life gives birth to good. — Vasily Grossman

Leo grabbed the neasrest thing he could find- a Porta-Potty seat- and threw it at the face. Leve me alone! — Rick Riordan

But it was the singing that pulled me in and split me wide open. — Anne Lamott

Everyone feels guilty before a mother who has lost her son in a war; throughout human history men have tried in vain to justify themselves. — Vasily Grossman

I don't believe in your "Good". I believe in human kindness. — Vasily Grossman

Yes, everything flows, everything changes, it's impossible to step twice into the same transport. — Vasily Grossman

At war a Russian man puts on a white shirt. He may live in sin, but he dies like a saint. — Vasily Grossman

I don't want you to be young and beautiful. I only want one thing. I want you to be kind-hearted - and not just towards cats and dogs. — Vasily Grossman

Humanity will live as long as there are humans. — Vasily Grossman

The law fights against life, and life fights against the law. — Vasily Grossman

Fascism will perish for the very reason that it has applied to man the laws applicable to atoms and cobblestones! — Vasily Grossman

And the greatest tragedy of our age is we don't listen to our consciences. We don't say what we think. We feel one thing and do another. — Vasily Grossman