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“And so they played some of the world's loveliest piano music - the exiled homesick girl, the humiliated, tired old man. Not properly. Better than that.”
Source : Eva Ibbotson (2008). “The Secret Countess”, p.101, Pan Macmillan
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“I slowly surrender to the child in me who can't say goodbye.”
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“Football is my love. Football is what I'm going to do. I'm a football player first.”
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“Do you know that all great spurts in...progress came just after some unorthodox ideas or exotic impressions had penetrated into a closed system?”
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“Men are clinging to football on a level we aren't even aware of. For centuries, we ruled everything, and now, in the last ten minutes, there are all these incursions by women. It's our Alamo.”
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“Well, I would definitely give up performing... But I would still sit down in an office and pretend to write with Dawn, even if we never produced anything, because it's just hilarious. I would miss that.”
Source : "What are you looking at?" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2004. 
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“Generalization is flawed thinking only when applied to individuals. It is the most accurate way to describe the mass, the Wad. And yours is a democracy, a dictatorship of the Wad.”
Source : Trevanian (2011). “Shibumi”, p.198, Hachette UK
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“In Buddhism, we speak of touching Nirvana with our own body, In Christianity, you can also touch the Kingdom of God with your body, right here and now. it is much safer than placing our hope in the future. If we cling to the idea of hope in the future, we might not notice the peace and joy that are available in the present moment. The best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment.”
