"There was always a real reason for everything - why spoons tarnished, and jam furred, and people declined into God, or drink, or card games."

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Edna O'Brien

#Real Quotes #Games Quotes #People Quotes

“Some people say vaulting is like riding a bike-but not for me. I have to put in a lot of days to feel confident in what I'm doing.”
“Today, blood work and science are able to provide more of a movie of your health, identifying trends before they become an issue.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I don't think our death ray is working. I'm standing right in it, and I'm not dead yet.”
“I consider myself a lesbian, but I'm a bisexual lesbian.”
“I hear you guys all the time talking about Daniel Bryan, trained by Shawn Michaels. One curious thing to me is, how come you guys never mention William Regal? William Regal did the real work with this young man. Shawn Michaels took $3,000 from him, that's allÂ heÂ ever did.”
“My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as 'an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.”
“I'm a bit of a deconstructionist myself. It's kind of exciting - the last intellectual thrill left. Like sawing through the branch you're sitting on.”

Source : David Lodge (2011). “The Campus Trilogy: Changing Places; Small World; Nice Work”, p.321, Penguin
“Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to.”

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