"The local groceries are all out of broccoli, loccoli."

-- Roy Blount, Jr.

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“Manhattan is so tailored. It's driven by appealing to the very wealthy and tourists.”
“Personally, I am always more impressed by simplicity, clarity; it is the mark of a writer who knows his subject well and is secure enough not to 'lay it on' in the telling. Aim for complexity of thought, not expression.”

Source : Noah Lukeman (2010). “The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile”, p.36, Oxford University Press, USA
“Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again,”

Source : "Damien Rice announces new album after an eight-year absence" by Sean Michaels, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2014.
“I'm still the fat kid from high school who never had a date”

Source : "Bring on the clown" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2004.
“I think that the best guarantee for the Cypriot people to feel safe is the potential of a fair and sustainable solution.”

Source : "Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of Greece in Joint Press Conference". obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 15, 2016.
“If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?”
“I put those people in place. I trusted them. I had no idea they would do anything like this.”
“The hardest part of playing the trumpet is the physical act of making the sound.”

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