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I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some sort of a postmodern coop.


Aleksandar Hemon

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GARY F EVANS... The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work!
DEYTH BANGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ...
GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
SIMI GREWAL I live my life progressing for nothing else but the best.
JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
ARNOLD TOYNBEE Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL
NATALIE URQUIETA Beauty fades, but knowledge is eternal
ANDREW FAIRCHILD Why bother with a cunning plan when a simple one will do?
TERRY PRATCHETT The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH A Ritual to Read to Each Other


If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD The saying sell all your belongings & give to the poor simply means "Redirect your mind to the verit...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward.
ERIC ROTH You're afraid of getting hurt like I'm afraid to die. It doesn't mean I'm not going to live every da...
VI KEELAND Wesley Rush doesn't chase girls, but I'm chasing you.
KODY KEPLINGER I turn and kick with the first one and feel myself being lifted and thrown towards the beach. It's l...
MARK SMITH What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit o...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY We are the books we read and the things we love.
CATH CROWLEY You should give up sarcasm. People could get the wrong idea about you.
MICHAEL PRYOR I know exactly who I am, what I'm about and who I will become.
EMMA PAUL It is better to grope in the dark and wade through a million errors to reach the Truth than to entru...
SUDHIR KAKAR If you argue with a fool, you become a fool.
L.A. HILDEN Everyday is another chance to do something great.
EMMA PAUL You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm!
COLETTE there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely ...
OSCAR WILDE I think you can tell when you meet someone whether they read novels. There's some hollowness if they...
PHILIP HENSHER Always be true to your friends, just as you are to yourself.
MEG CABOT I have this feeling, like I'm waiting for something. But I have no idea what.
JENNIFER NIVEN 2.5.03.02.005: Generally speaking, if you fiddle with something, it will break. Don't.
JASPER FFORDE I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.
ELIZABETH I (SPOKEN TO HER PARLAMENT) Judge not lest ye be judged.
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW old books -- little tombstones of ideas and history
AMY TAN The scientific method gives us information by testing and repeating observable things so that we can...
LEWIS N. ROE There was a lady at the sink and she was trying to administer something to him. She pulled him into ...
KAREN BASS In a world of words, anything is possible...
LAURA WRIGHT LAROCHE Our goal from the beginning has been to blur the line between education and entertainment, ... why n...
WILL PEARSON How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS Entrepreneur, you're either raising the bar of excellence or, you're exhaling at the bar which is ex...
ONYI ANYADO I'm about to do something very clever and a tiny bit against the rules of the universe. It's importa...
TOMMY DONBAVAND We are hell different but vanity keeps us stuck.
PARUL WADHWA Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE We sang the song as children of the mystery that we hoped to one day comprehend and now, at last, we...
MISHI MCCOY Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m...
AMBER SMITH To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Your "Not To Do" list is also important.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN The earth is an arena of champions. We are all champions. We all did overcome millions of potential ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev...
A WALK TO REMEMBER I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this ti...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH - Mrzim sve što je odricanje!
- Ni ja, Ivane, ne pristajem da se odričem. Ja hoću ceo, sav, ...
DOBRICA ĆOSIć In the beginning the Universe was created.
This had made many people very angry and has been wi...
DOUGLAS ADAMS There was a terribly ghastly silence.
There was a terribly ghastly noise.
There was a terr...
DOUGLAS ADAMS To make one mistake, and then fix it. It shows, a sign that you have understood
the lesson.
DEYTH BANGER She was restless. She drove a little too fast, swam a little too far offshore. She hitchhiked. She s...
ELIZABETH WINDER Boring people live boring lives.
HABEEB AKANDE Can I buy you a drink when you get off?"

"I don't drink. Alcohol is bad for my legs."
ERIC JEROME DICKEY He'd never forget what Naasir had said to him when Dmitri yelled that he didn't intend to bury anoth...
NALINI SINGH Seeking survival, hostile, hidden from sight,
Deliciously flavoured - juicy, sweet bite,
E...
CLAUDIA BAKKER He muttered something foul and then climbed the stairs, rapping twice on Timmie’s door.
“Ri...
JEANIENE FROST I don't spend a lot of time asking "WHY?" Instead I focus on what I should do now or how I should re...
JEFF DIXON-THE KEY TO THE KINGDOM What sort of person you grow into should not be achieved by default, and often that's exactly wh...
WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Do you know great people are continually quoted while the average always misquote great people?
ONYI ANYADO Abstract conversations are my favourite, for they unviel true convictions.
PARUL WADHWA Maxim 1:
Pillage, then burn.

-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Merc...
HOWARD TAYLER Every meeting led to a parting, and so it would, as long as life was mortal. In every meeting there ...
CASSANDRA CLARE A Decalogue of Canons for Observation in Practical Life:

1. Never put off to tomorrow wha...
THOMAS JEFFERSON You love another person not because of his virtues- that is infatuation- but in spite of his faults,...
SUDHIR KAKAR The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experi...
LIBBA BRAY Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER Truth is irrelevant. What is relevant is whether or not they believe it."

The logic in th...
SARAH MACLEAN Want LESS! Need LESS! Live MORE!
TANYA MASSE Shelley, you’re just like that oyster.” God confronted me on the deeper areas of my life that I ...
SHELLEY LUBBEN Last words of wisdom. Whoever you were as a child, she's your future.
CHERISE WOLAS That’s not fair!

Words we often speak when God's word becomes flesh in our lives 2 Timo...
JOHN M SHEEHAN In the journey of life, certain paths may seem to be leading nowhere because of a mountain or hill o...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

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ALEKSANDAR HEMON I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat.
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ALEKSANDAR HEMON I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON All the lives I could live, all the people I will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. Th...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON Salinger is a master of the memorable detail, the seemingly random gesture, the debris of mundane da...
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