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“I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.”
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“Perhaps love is like a resting place, a shelter from the storm. It exists to give you comfort, it is there to keep you warm, and in those times of trouble when you are most alone, the memory of love will bring you home.”
Source : Song: Perhaps Love, 1982
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“Painting has been a smiling mistress to many, but she has been a cruel jilt to me; I did not abandon her, she abandoned me.”
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“Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear.”
Source : Andrew Motion (2010). “Selected Poems of Andrew Motion”, p.16, Faber & Faber
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“I think I was a feminist before the word was invented.”
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“What would be wrong with letting a kid go pro, and if it doesn't work out he can come back to college? What's the harm in that? The reason is the word "amateurism." The NCAA has to protect colleges' tax exemption.”
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“Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future.”
Source : "Books of the Times" by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, www.nytimes.com. 1986. 
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“A good character is, in all cases, the fruit of personal exertion. It is not inherited from parents; it is not created by external advantages; it is no necessary appendage of birth, wealth, talents, or station; but it is the result of one's own endeavors-the fruit and reward of good principles manifested in a course of virtuous and honorable action.”
