"But it turns out that even if I donâ€™t talk a lot, when itâ€™s something that matters I still have a lot to say."

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Source : Catherine Gilbert Murdock (2007). “Dairy Queen”, p.275, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Catherine Gilbert Murdock

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“by grace ye are saved, not of works,' but by the will of God through Jesus Christ . . . If we please Him in this present world, we shall receive also the future world, according as He has promised to us that He will raise us again from the dead, and that if we live worthily of Him, 'we shall also reign together with Him,' provided only we believe . . .”
“The so-called miraculous powers of a great master are a natural accompaniment to his exact understanding of subtle laws that operate in the inner cosmos of consciousness.”
“A great champion deals with setback with a comeback,”
“Discontent is the first necessity of progress.”

Source : "The Diary and Sundry Observations of Thomas Alva Edison". Book by Thomas A. Edison, 1948.
“For the bookish, London is a book. For criminals, a map of opportunities. For unpapered immigrants, it is a nest of skinned eyes; sanctioned gunmen ready to blow your head off as you run for a train. When the city of distorting mirrors revealed itself, through its districts and discriminations, I discovered more about London's past as a reworking of my own submerged history.”

Source : Iain Sinclair (2007). “London: City of Disappearances”, Penguin Global
“My make-up artist, she uses bronzer on the eyelids too. And also a little bit on the forehead to make everything look even.”
“Lia: "You've changed your mind about wanting to marry me. You're afraid I'll burn down your home. Embarrass you in front of all the other city brutes." Zane: "I'm afraid," he said gently, "that you will burn down my heart.”
“The chilly December day! two shivering bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio first felt their homemade contraption whittled out of hickory sticks, gummed together with Arnstein's bicycle cement, stretched with muslin they'd sewn on their sister's sewing machine in their own backyard on Hawthorn Street in Dayton, Ohio, soar into the air above the dunes and the wide beach at Kitty Hawk.”

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