Top 24 Jonathan Littell Quotes
#1. So what's the most atrocious thing you've seen?" He waved his hand: "Man, of course!
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#2. Blood transmits a propensity for heart diseases; if it also transmits a propensity for treason, no one has ever been able to prove it.
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#3. The problem with being British ... I don't know if it's me being British or being raised a strict Catholic, but you never really enjoy success.
Danny Boyle
#4. Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
Moliere
#5. When Al Gore urges the citizenry to sacrifice their plastic shopping bags, their air-conditioning, their extraneous travel, the agnostics grumble that human activity accounts for just 2 percent of global carbon-dioxide emissions, with the remainder generated by natural processes like plant decay.
Steven D. Levitt
#6. Every Christian who keeps looking up stretches his heart's capacity for Heaven.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#7. There were always reasons for what I did. Good reasons or bad reasons, I don't know, in any case human reasons. Those who kill are humans, just like those who are killed, that's what's terrible. You
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#8. When you feel like tellin a feller to go to the devil - tell him to go to Chicago - it'll anser every purpose, and is perhaps, a leetle more expensive.
Mark Twain
#9. Like translation itself, Asymptote is a fluid web reaching out to all sides, bringing texts and readers together, through the most improbable and marvelous of connections.
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#10. A gin and tonic under its tiny canopy of lime, I said, elevates character and makes for enlightened conversation
Michael Chabon
#12. The future of marketing is leadership
Seth Godin
#13. Of course, the spectacle of two people's happiness is always something of a magnet for the unclaimed.
Anita Brookner
#14. But what, after all, can a baby do except swallow all of it and hope to make sense of it later?
Salman Rushdie
#15. Your first time?" the Hauptman gently asked. I nodded. "You'll get used to it," he went on, "but maybe never completely." He
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#16. If you ever managed to make me cry, my tears would sear your face.
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#17. I have remained someone who believes that the only things indispensable to human life are air, food, drink and excretion, and the search for truth. The rest is optional.
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#18. So who is guilty? Everyone, or no one? Why should the worker assigned to the gas chamber be guiltier than the worker assigned to the boilers, the garden, the vehicles? The
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#19. In order to choose the right path, we do not have to figure out the wrong one ... we just need to follow the light.
Akiane Kramarik
#20. Both deaths were equally vain, neither of them shortened the war by so much as a second; but in both cases, the man or men who killed them believed it was just and necessary; and if they were wrong, who's to blame? What
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#21. Joe DiMaggio batting sometimes gave the impression, the suggestion that the old rules and dimensions of baseball no longer applied to him, and that the game had at last grown unfairly easy.
Donald Hall
#22. One of the advantages of having lived a long time is that you can often remember when you had it worse. I am grateful to have lived long enough to have known some of the blessings of adversity.
James E. Faust
#23. When you get the red letters right, it all makes sense.
Don C Harris
#24. This path is very rarely the result of any choice, or even of personal predilection. The victims, in the vast majority of cases, were not tortured or killed because they were good any more than their executioners tormented them because they were evil. It
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