"Nothing's a gift, it's all on loan"

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Source : Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “Map: Collected and Last Poems”, p.310, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Wislawa Szymborska

“Itâ€™s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.”
“Becoming a Christian is the work of a moment; being a Christian is the work of a lifetime.”
“People think by challenging me they're going to show they're tough. But I'm not tough. Decent drinker. Not such a bad kisser. But not a great fighter.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Ella's supersonic voice followed her all the way to Bleecker Street and then dissolved amid the noisy profusion of shops, cafes, and restaurants and the crush of people that made the West Village of Manhattan unique in the world. In a single block you could buy fertility statues from Tanzania, rare Amazonian orchids, a pawned brass tuba, Krispy Kreme doughnuts, or the best, most expensive cup of coffee you ever tasted. It was the doughnuts, incidentally, that attracted Gaia.”

Source : Francine Pascal (2001). “Sam”, p.7, Simon and Schuster
“John Belushi infused Animal House with this spirit of guerilla filmmaking. John Landis came from that world too, and all the National Lampoon writers were from that world. It was just chaos on film. Controlled chaos, though. We stayed very close to the script. It was a very formal kind of movie, if you look at it. Formally photographed and structured, with certain elements of improv.”

Source : Source: film.avclub.com
“We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war.”
“I cannot be a traitor, since I never swore fealty to the English king.”
“In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves.”

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