"What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room."

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Source : Lisa Alther (2010). “Other Women”, p.260, Open Road Media

Lisa Alther

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“My family is everything to me.”

Source : Tiki Barber, Gil Reavill (2008). “Tiki: My Life in the Game and Beyond”, p.45, Simon and Schuster
“I've never read anything about ***** where, yeah, it's a good experience, and you can do it for 20 years and enjoy it, like having a cold beer. It doesn't work that way with heroin.”
“Translation is not appropriation, as is sometimes claimed; it is a form of listening that then changes how you speak.”

Source : Eliot Weinberger (2000). “Anonymous Sources: A Talk on Translators and Translation : Lecture”
“I'm suspicious that what's behind the academic call for doing away with athletic scholarships is a nostalgia for the good old days, which leaves out everyone but white Anglo-Saxon Protestants, ... world's biggest cocktail party.”
“The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, My country, right or wrong. In one sense I say so too. My country; and my country is the great American Republic. My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.”
“Flowers are red, and green leaves are green. There's no need to see flowers any other way than the way they always have been seen.”
“I love luxury, I love the high life, and I have to foot the bills - I have received practically nothing from my marriages and relationships.”
“When you become confident with your inner-self, the outside's just going to fall into place.”

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