"Forget romantic fiction, a survey has found that most women would rather read a good book than go shopping, have sex, or sleep."

-- Janet Street-Porter

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“Income inequality has no necessary connection with poverty, the lack of material resources for a decent life, such as adequate food, shelter, and clothing. A society with great income inequality may have no poor people, and a society with no income inequality may have nothing but poor people.”
“I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I think.”
“I love the season well When forest glades are teeming with bright forms, Nor dark and many-folded clouds foretell The coming of storms.”
“We take it into account from the very beginning and try to steer couples toward items that lend themselves to those circumstances. Sometimes we have to steer a little more forcefully - you can't fry French fries in the New York Public Library.”
“Love and friendship, two of life's abiding rewards, are endangered species in Hollywood. People crave both, mistaking alliance for friendship, lust for love, and ambition for both.”
“Every physician must be rich in knowledge, and not only of that which is written in books; his patients should be his book, they will never mislead him.”

Source : Paracelsus, Jolande Jacobi (1951). “Selected Writings”, p.50, Princeton University Press
“Isn't it sad that we only get upset about nasty things happening to people and places if television decides we should?”

Source : M. C. Beaton (2007). “Death of a Village”, p.152, Hachette UK
“Following the Rumanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away... Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liquid chicken fat) is kept on the table to give the vampires heartburn if they get through the garlic defense.”

Source : Calvin Trillin (2009). “Alice, Let's Eat: Further Adventures of a Happy Eater”, p.64, Random House

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