"Cesare persuaded King Louis to lend him an entire army to defeat me. I'm flattered."

-- Bartolomeo d'Alviano

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“Give an earnest-hearted, devoted girl any true work that will make her active in the dawn, and weary at night, with the consciousness that her fellow-creatures have indeed been the better for her day, and the powerless sorrow of her enthusiasm will transform itself into a majesty of radiant and beneficent peace.”
“I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.”
“As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to us is imbued with the obscurity of the matrix out of which they come; and try as we may, we cannot always decipher them precisely in the clearer light of our day.”
“The comics are where all the crazy subconscious stuff comes out.”

Source : "STYLE; An Eye for The Ladies". Interview with Lisa Eisner and Roman Alonso, www.nytimes.com. March 30, 2003.
“Few bands in hard rock history have been so adept at balancing the awesome and trivial as Van Halen in their prime.”
“My whole career I'm used to playing a lot of games.”
“As long as we win games and I harass the quarterback, however I do it, we're good.”
“to read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another, from one action to another, from one level of a text to another. The text unveils itself before us, but never allows itself to be possessed; and instead of trying to possess it we should take pleasure in its teasing”

Source : David Lodge (2011). “The Campus Trilogy: Changing Places; Small World; Nice Work”, p.240, Penguin

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