"Coffee, according to the women of Denmark, is to the body what the Word of the Lord is to the soul."

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Source : Isak Dinesen (2011). “Seven Gothic Tales”, p.245, Vintage

Isak Dinesen

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“You can't please everybody all the time, but you can please a majority.”
“Brain-washing starts in the cradle.”

Source : Arthur Koestler (1981). “Kaleidoscope: essays from Drinkers of infinity, and The heel of Achilles and later pieces and stories”, Vintage
“Not every problem someone has with his girlfriend is necessarily due to the capitalist mode of production.”
“You do have great love within you at this very moment.”
“The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.”

Source : Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7”, p.305, Best Books on
“I didnâ€™t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didnâ€™t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and Iâ€™d cry for a week. I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full.”
“To confront a person with their own shadow is to show them their own light.”
“I lost 100 pounds and embraced theater and music as what I was going to make for the rest of my life.”

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