„Carmody’s jaw stiffened and he withdrew his hand. He had been pushed around long enough. Now, for the sake of his own self-esteem, he would not yield any more.“

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— Robert Sheckley, buch Dimension of Miracles

Quelle: Dimension of Miracles (1968), Chapter 4 (p. 31)

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Robert Sheckley

US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller 1928 - 2005

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— Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons

Sir Thomas More, Act II
A Man for All Seasons (1960)

„He was not satisfied with the way things stood now; he was a man who had come in sight of a goal, then had won it, and in winning it had seen just within his grasp another goal, higher, greater. He had learned to shout and had shouted and no ear had heard him; he had just learned to walk and was walking but could not see the ground beneath his feel; he had long been yearning for weapons to hold in his hands and suddenly found that his hands held weapons that were invisible.“

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— Richard Wright African-American writer 1908 - 1960

"Flight", pp.125, Harper Row 1966
Native Son (1940)

„As long as he could whisper, he would go on as he had begun, bluntly refusing to meet his creator with the admission that the creation had taught him nothing except that the square of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle might for convenience be taken as equal to something else. Every man with self-respect enough to become effective, if only as a machine, has had to account to himself for himself somehow, and to invent a formula of his own for his universe, if the standard formulas failed.“

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— Henry Adams journalist, historian, academic, novelist 1838 - 1918

The Education of Henry Adams (1907)

„He had no right to take the law into his own hands.“

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— Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon British Baron 1732 - 1802

Tarleton v. McGawley (1795), 2 Peake, N. P. Ca. 208

„No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had.“

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— Samuel Johnson English writer 1709 - 1784

On Oliver Goldsmith1780
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV

„I’ve seen your foot up close.”
Curran pointed to his chest. “I’ve seen it here.” He moved his hand to his jaw. “Here.” He touched the place over his cheek where my kick had cut him. “And here.“

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— Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Quelle: Magic Slays

„He stopped, turned. He cupped his hands around his mouth. ''For you a thousand times over!'' he said. Then he smiled his Hassan smile and disappeared around the corner.“

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— Khaled Hosseini, buch Drachenläufer

Quelle: The Kite Runner

„He would have been a handful in any society. He is a misfit and fully conscious of it. The punctilio of his old-world manners, the dandified scrupulosity of his Savile Row suits, are compelled by an unsleeping awareness that he has no more business among ordinary human beings than a Venusian.“

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— Barry Humphries Australian comedian and actor 1934

Clive James, 'Approximately in the Vicinity of Barry Humphries' http://www.clivejames.com/pieces/snakecharmers/barry-humphries

„Now he was indifferent to all "questions" save that prime solicitude of the human race, how to hold its own against the hostile forces everywhere leagued against it. Life was a perpetual struggle, and, let dreamers say what they might, could never be anything else; he, for one, perceived no right that he had to claim exemption from the doom of labour. Had he felt an impulse to any other kind of work, well and good, he would have turned to it; but nothing whatever called to him with imperative voice save this task of tilling his own acres. It might not always satisfy him; he took no vow of one sole vocation; he had no desire to let his mind rust whilst his hands grew horny. Enough that for the present he had an aim which he saw as a reality.“

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— George Gissing English novelist 1857 - 1903

Quelle: Our Friend the Charlatan (1901), Ch. XXVIII

„And so Butler made a decision, the consequences of which would haunt his dreams and waking hours for years to come. As a professional bodyguard, he knew the futility of second-guessing his own actions, but in the nights ahead he would often sit by the fire, with his head in his hands, and replay the moment in his mind, wishing that he had acted differently. Whatever way he played it out, the results were tragic, but at least they would not have been tragic for Artemis.“

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— Eoin Colfer, buch Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony

Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony (2006)

„God is indeed dead.
He died of self-horror
when He saw the creature He had made
in His own image.“

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— Irving Layton Romanian-born Canadian poet 1912 - 2006

Aphs.
The Whole Bloody Bird (1969)

„To his complete astonishment, he later found himself offering up a stumbling prayer that the dog would be protected. It was a moment in which he felt a desperate need to believe in a God that shepherded his own creations. But, even praying, he felt a twinge of self-reproach, and knew he might start mocking his own prayer at any second.
Somehow, though, he managed to ignore his iconoclastic self and went on praying anyway. Because he wanted the dog, because he needed the dog.“

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— Richard Matheson, buch I Am Legend

Quelle: I Am Legend (1954), Ch. 12

„He built a small house, called a cocoon, around himself. He stayed inside for more than two weeks. Then he nibbled a hole in the cocoon, pushed his way out and…

he was a beautiful butterfly!“

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— Eric Carle, buch The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Quelle: The Very Hungry Caterpillar

„She put her hand in his, and he clasped it firmly, knowing he had been waiting for her all his life.“

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— Barbara Taylor Bradford British author 1933

Quelle: To Be the Best

„There is nothing that so raises a young man's self-esteem, that so contributes to the formation of his character as for him to find himself unexpectedly confronted with a task which he has to accomplish entirely on his own initiative and by his own efforts.“

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— Stefan Zweig, buch Ungeduld des Herzens

Beware of Pity (1939)

„Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate — he has little success in this — but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins, for he sees different (and more) things than do the others; after all, dead as he is in his own lifetime, he is the real survivor. This assumes that he does not need both hands, or more hands than he has, in his struggle against despair.“

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— Franz Kafka author 1883 - 1924

19 October 1921
The Diaries of Franz Kafka 1910-1923 (1948)

„He was angry, too, because it would soon be Christmas and he had nothing to give Leslie. It was not that she would expect something expensive; it was that he needed to give her something as much as he needed to eat when he was hungry. […] She wouldn't laugh at him no matter what he gave her. But for his own sake he had to give her something he could be proud of.“

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— Katherine Paterson, buch Bridge to Terabithia

Jesse Aarons
Bridge to Terabithia (1977)

„I remember a picture I saw in a paper not long before the wall came down. There was a man standing holding a very young daughter, my guess was that she was only about one or two years old. She had on a rather plain dress, he had on a coat and a tie and he was carrying probably a cardboard suitcase. And my guess is that everything he owned in the world was in that suitcase. And he was weeping. He wasn't weeping because he left his car and the rest of his family back on the other side of that Iron Curtain; he was weeping because he was free. He was weeping because now he had opportunity, he had the chance to choose for the first time in his life, and his daughter whom he was holding in his hands had a future, whereas before she would not have had one. That struck me as a very, very vivid picture of what this all meant.“

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— Leighton W. Smith, Jr. United States Navy admiral 1939

On the end of the Cold War, in part 7: The End of the Cold War http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/LWSmith/lwsmith-con02.html
Interview at USC Berkeley (1997)

„Man—every man—is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself; he must work for his rational self-interest, with the achievement of his own happiness as the highest moral purpose of his life.“

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— Ayn Rand Russian-American novelist and philosopher 1905 - 1982

The Ayn Rand Column ‘Introducing Objectivism’

„The frightened individual seeks for somebody or something to tie his self
to; he cannot bear to be his own individual self any longer,
and he tries frantically to get rid of it and to feel security again by the elimination of this burden:
the self.“

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— Erich Fromm, buch Escape from Freedom

Quelle: Escape from Freedom

„Carmody’s jaw stiffened and he withdrew his hand. He had been pushed around long enough. Now, for the sake of his own self-esteem, he would not yield any more.“

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