"When you're reading my book, you're not in a four dimensional continuum, you're in my continuum, the Grossman continuum."

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Richard Grossman

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“Big tears of frustration and exhaustion were streaming down his cheeks. But because of all the wrinkles, they weren't dripping off. They spread out and ran together again, leaving a watery film over his ruined face.”
“Where's the rest of me?”

Source : 1942 Line delivered by Ronald Reagan on discovering his legs have been amputated in King's Row.
“The gift of self cannot be given to us. It is an incomparable gift that has already been given. We have possessed it from the beginning.”

Source : Gerry Spence (1999). “Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century”, p.151, Macmillan
“Many CEOs and leaders think that silence is indeed golden, that consensus is bliss. It is - sometimes. But more often what it signifies is that there are no respected processes for surfacing concerns and dissent.”
“I've never been the popular kid in school. I've been a loner my whole life. That's why I have a very low profile.”
“I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.”
“I donâ€™t know about â€˜common sense opinionâ€™ by the way. It seems to me that the office of common sense is to keep us from playing cards for high stakes with people we meet on trains, and not to endorse metaphysical opinions.”
“Clothes and courage have so much to do with each other.”

Source : Sara Jeannette Duncan (2016). “An American Girl in London”, p.16, Sara Jeannette Duncan

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