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“I don't like to be away from my family for long periods.”
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“I do not photograph for ulterior purposes. I photograph for the thing itself - for the photograph - without consideration of how it may be used.”
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“I have a tendency toward being a micromanager. Which, the bigger the project you're involved in, the harder that becomes.”
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“You were talking to that niche in the wall again, Gwyneth. I saw you." "Yes, but it's my favorite bit of wall, Gordon. I'd hurt its feelings if I didn't stop and talk to it.”
Source : Kerstin Gier (2011). “Ruby Red”, p.277, Macmillan
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“In his extreme youth Stoner had thought of love as an absolute state of being to which, if one were lucky, one might find access; in his maturity he had decided it was the heaven of a false religion, toward which one ought to gaze with an amused disbelief, a gently familiar contempt, and an embarrassed nostalgia. Now in his middle age he began to know that it was neither a state of grace nor an illusion; he saw it as a human act of becoming, a condition that was invented and modified moment by moment and day by day, by the will and the intelligence and the heart.”
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“The task is not done. The journey is not complete. We can and we must do more.”
Source : "50 Years After March on Washington, Tens of Thousands Say Struggle for MLK’s “Dream” Continues". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. August 26, 2013.
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“My wife and I were present at this congress. Sabina told me, "Richard, stand up and wash away this shame from the face of Christ! They are spitting in His face." I said to her, "If I do so, you lose your husband." She replied, "I don't wish to have a coward as a husband.”
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“The rain was dashing in torrents against the window-panes, and the wind sweeping in heavy and fitful gusts along the dreary and deserted streets, as a party of three persons sat over their wine, in that stately old pile which once formed the resort of the Irish Members, in College Green, Dublin, and went by the name of Daly's Clubhouse.”
Source : Charles Lever (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Lever (Illustrated)”, p.767, Delphi Classics