"rain began to beat at the narrow lattice windows in the stop-and-start manner of an untalented child practicing scales at the piano."

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Source : Dorothy Cannell (2013). “God Save the Queen!”, p.13, Belgrave House

Dorothy Cannell

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“A man wants a woman who will place him at the top of his priority list, not second but first. He wants to be the kingpin around which all other activities of her life revolve.”

Source : Helen Andelin (2013). “Fascinating Womanhood: The Updated Edition of the Classic Bestseller That Shows You How to Strengthen our Marriage and Enrich Your Life”, p.91, Bantam
“Free people have a serious problem with place, being in a place, using up a place, deciding which new place to rotate to. Americans ricochet around the United States like billiard balls.”
“Perfect clarity would profit the intellect but damage the will.”
“The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.”
“I worked on a film short with Frank Sinatra when I was a kid.”
“I didn't really think about becoming a professional artist until high school, when I realized that everything else required too much math.”
“Some people have told me they remember the film that one of my images is derived from, but in fact I had no film in mind at all.”
“It is a damned sight easier to start wars than to end them. This truth has been stated for as long and as often as it has been ignored. High time and thank God, we are at least moving toward de-escalation in Vietnam. The road to extrication will be long, painful, bitter. But it must be trod. We are so bogged down in Vietnam that we cannot respond effectively anywhere else in the world to a military power play except through atomic bombardment.”

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