"He bowed. 'The young lady must not dance alone."

-- Gail Carson Levine

“Give, if thou can, an alms; if not, a sweet and gentle word.”
“For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.”
“A writer needs four things to achieve greatness, Pasquale: desire, disappointment, and the sea.â€ â€œThatâ€™s only three.â€ Alvis finished his wine. â€œYou have to do disappointment twice.”

Source : Jess Walter (2013). “Beautiful Ruins”, p.62, Penguin UK
“Producers want to put their music behind revivals but I don't think that's a good trend for the theater at all.”
“This is so rich a country that luxury has developed at the expense of necessities, and even the destitute partake of the luxury. We are the rich country of the world, like Dives at the feast. We must try hard, we must study to be poor like Lazarus at the gate, who was taken into Abraham's bosom.”
“Somewhere in the dim recesses of the journalistic soul lies the horrible suspicion: This is really a pretty shallow and maybe unseemly way for a grownup to make a living.”
“We who have turned our lives over to Christ need to know how very much he longs to eat with us, to commune with us. He desires a perpetual Eucharistic feast in the inner sanctuary of the heart.”
“I never saw anything that would qualify as a criminal activity.”

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