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“In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded me for having an excess of feeling, saying that I was too sensitive - as if one could be in danger from feeling too much instead of too little. But my outsize emotions were well represented in books. [] there simmered all the feelings no one ever admits to.”
Source : Betsy Lerner (2016). “The Forest for the Trees: An editor's advice to writers”, p.15, Pan Macmillan
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“There is nothing like the cure of fresh air for cases of bladder infection, paranoia, and Cartesian thinking.”
Source : Rawi Hage (2013). “Carnival”, p.37, Penguin UK
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“In our increasingly secular society, with so many disparate gods and different faiths, superhero films present a unique canvas upon which our shared hopes, dreams and apocalyptic nightmares can be projected and played out.”
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“There's a reason that I love this town.”
Source : Song: Love This Town, Album: La De Da, 2005
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“If you take all the marketing books in the world and distill them, the key to marketing is hope. People buy hope, the hope that you will help them solve a problem or achieve a goal.”
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“So...have you ever thought about dyeing your hair punk-rocker-chick black? As I'm sure you've heard, I have a thing for brunettes and always avoid blondes." "I've heard. And no." "Too bad. Because you're making me rethink my stance about doing my friends' exes." i snorted, not even trying to hide my...incredulity? Surely I wasn't amused. "Your making me rethink my stance on cold-blooded homicide”
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“I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.”
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“I think your alcohol intake has to change. You know, usually a big person feels they can drink anything they want to and as much as they want to and I've cut that way back.”
