"The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart."

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Alfred de Vigny

#Heart Quotes #Progress Quotes #Analysis Quotes

“It's very rare to find a place where news itself has a political bent. Normally, let's say in the U.K. for instance, newspapers might explicitly support one party or the other, but television is just straight-up facts that are not influenced by any party from either side. In South Africa we try to maintain the same thing. Unfortunately, the government sometimes intervenes, but for the most part, the facts are the facts.”
“I have never been able to understand why perfectly sensible people waste time being wittily obscure instead of just saying what they want and going on about their business.”
“I made a list of things I have to remember and a list of things I want to forget, but I see they are the same list.”

Source : Linda Pastan (2009). “給要離家的女兒”, p.44, 書林出版有限公司
“You'll sleep with the lights on after reading Gregg Olsen.”
“Whenever they say it canâ€™t be done, remind them that they make a jellybean that tastes exactly like popcorn.”
“Perhaps the one comforting thought I got out of this whole disgusting affair was that over the years when the government was tapping my telephone, it must certainly have heard some home truths from me about themselves, often couched in good Anglo-Saxon terms.”
“Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young.”
“Over the Christmas period, I spent time with both Bob Hawke and Paul Keating, and you listen to stories and tales of how hard it can be when it's really hard, and I think we easily all talk ourselves into the proposition that it's never been as hard as this. Well it's been hard in the past. It's been really hard. So you keep doing it and, the more you do it, the more you gain strength and confidence that you can do it.”

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