"Daughters-in-law lived with their husbands' parents, not their own; a synonym for marriage in Chinese is "taking a daughter-in-law."

-- Maxine Hong Kingston

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“Because Republicans defected and voted with all the Democrats to reject Jeff Sessions` nomination when they discovered that when he was working as a prosecutor in Alabama, he called the NAACP Un-American.”
“Once a Catholic always a Catholic.”

Source : 'The Wrong Set' (1949) p. 168
“I have met a great celebrity, Madame Dudevant, known as George Sand... Her appearance is not to my liking. Indeed there is something about her which positively repels me... What an unattractive person La Sand is... Is she really a woman? I'm inclined to doubt it.”
“We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves, unable to see that here, now, this very moment is sacred; but once itâ€™s gone â€“ its value is incontestable.”
“Being alone at night is scary sometimes.”

Source : "PBC fighters share spooktacular Halloween memories". PBC interview, www.premierboxingchampions.com. October 30, 2015.
“This is a city of absolute enchantment in the literal sense of the word. It loosens all the bonds binding the traveller to his own age and sets him free to live in a past that is vital and crude but never ugly. Herat is as old as history and as moving as a great epic poem - if Afghanistan had nothing else it would have been worth coming to experience this.”

Source : Dervla Murphy (1987). “Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle”, p.39, The Overlook Press
“The happy ending is hardly important, though we may be glad its there. The real joy is knowing that if you felt the trouble in the story, your kingdom isnt dead.”
“I wish I was a teenager in the 1970s.”

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