"It's amazing what you can see when you just sit quietly and look."

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Source : Jacqueline Kelly (2009). “The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate”, p.35, Macmillan

Jacqueline Kelly

“In middle school I wrote a paper on Hemingway and none of the sentences had more than five words.”

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“One woman approached me as she walked past and, pointing to her four children who were manfully helping the smallest ones over the rough ground, whispered: 'How can you bring yourself to kill such beautiful, darling children? Have you no heart at all?' One old man, as he passed me, hissed: 'Germany will pay a heavy penance for this mass murder of the Jews.' His eyes glowed with hatred as he said this. Nevertheless he walked calmly into the gas-chamber.”

Source : "Commandant of Auschwitz: The Autobiography of Rudolf Hoess". Book by Rudolf Höss, p. 150, 2000.
“I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.”
“It's all kinds of these profound things crashing on you when your child arrives into the world. It's like you've met your reason to live.”
“Every 15, 20, 25 years, a new rock and roll record needs to come out and a new rock and roll band needs to come out.”
“The U.N. can be very frustrating and at times impotent, but it can also be a valuable forum for discussion and resolution of world problems. We should not walk away from it just because it's failed to live up to its promise.”
“When Mrs. Jinnah feels cold, she will say so, and ask for a wrap herself.”
“Why must she dress that way? I think she's confused about her gender.”

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