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Dan: I need a favor. Kuwaiti Businessman: Why I should help you? Dan: Because we're friends. Kuwaiti Businessman: You saying we are friends? How come you only call me when you need help? But when I need something you are too busy to pick up the phone...

Zero Dark Thirty

Claudia: I don't understand. He meets a girl that can give him a new life and he pushes her away? Guido: Because he no longer believes in it. Claudia: Because he doesn't know how to love. Guido: Because it isn't true that a woman can change a man. Cl...

8½

Margo Channing: She thinks only of me, doesn't she? Birdie: Well, let's say she thinks only about you, anyway. Margo Channing: How do you mean that? Birdie: I'll tell you how: like... like she's studying you, like you was a play or a book or a set of...

All About Eve

Henri Ducard: You have learned to bury your guilt with anger. I will teach you to confront it, and to face the truth. You know how to fight six men. We can teach you how to engage six hundred. You know how to disappear. We can teach you to become tru...

Batman Begins

Senior Ed Bloom: People needn't worry so much. It's not my time yet. This is not how I go. Will Bloom: Really? Senior Ed Bloom: Truly. I saw it in the eye. Will Bloom: The old lady by the swamp? Senior Ed Bloom: She was a *witch*. Will Bloom: No, she...

Big Fish

[after Peggy tells her parents that they never had any trouble in their relationship] Milly Stephenson: "We never had any trouble." How many times have I told you I hated you and believed it in my heart? How many times have you said you were sick and...

The Best Years of Our Lives

There is no neatness in any life- great or small. It is only an illusion men foolishly pursue. All lived lives are a mess. The neatness in my life had begun to crumble some time before, but now it disintegrated completely as I vanished into a world o...

Tarun J. Tejpal

We are earthbound creatures, Maggie had thought. No matter how tempting the sky. No matter how beautiful the stars. No matter how deep the dream of flight. We are creatures of the earth. Born with legs, not wings, legs that root us to the earth, and ...

Thrity Umrigar

How well I know you by your deeds and how invariably you succeed in living down to what one expects of you!

The Count of Monte Cristo

Oh, mankind, race of crocodiles! How well I recognize you down there, and how worthy you are of yourselves!

The Count of Monte Cristo

A man doesn't know till he tries it how killing uncongenial work is, and how it destroys the power of doing what one's fit for, even if there's time for both.

The Custom of the Country

He knew how intelligent men could be broken by the stupidity of their superiors, how weeks of patient work night and day could be cast aside by such a man

Call for the Dead

Don’t take everything for granted, and do not always count on finding everything you need.

China Survival Guide: How to Avoid Travel Troubles and Mortifying Mishaps

When given the chance to see China off the beaten track, definitely take it.

China Survival Guide: How to Avoid Travel Troubles and Mortifying Mishaps

You thought you knew what food was, you thought it was elemental. You forgot how much restaurant there was in restaurant food and how much home was in homemade.

The Corrections

...neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

it (love) must be a conscious choice and not an emotional response (Matthew 5:46).

Cupidity: 50 Stupid Things People Do For Love And How To Avoid Them

Science often progresses by carving out new distinctions that refine the fuzzy categories of natural language.

Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts

love doesn't have to feel good in order to exist.

Cupidity: 50 Stupid Things People Do For Love And How To Avoid Them

A belief is an absolute but arbitrary mental stance.

A Complaint Free World: How to Stop Complaining and Start Enjoying the Life You Always Wanted

A dwarf will fight for honor, but a man will kill for pride.” Auron thought for a moment. “What’s the difference?” “Honor is how others see you. Pride is how you see yourself.

Dragon Champion