"I once wrestled with an angel. He won, but I learned a few things."

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Source : Arturo Pérez-Reverte (1998). “The Club Dumas: A Novel”, Vintage

Arturo PÃ©rez-Reverte

“There are two kinds of secrets: those we keep from others and those we hide from ourselves.”
“In the end we're all searching for our home, that one place where we belong.”
“Originality in literature is only a new coat of paint on an old house.”
“Waves, once they land on the beach, are not reversible.”
“The winds that never moderation knew, Afraid to blow too much, too faintly blew; Or out of breath with joy, could not enlarge Their straighten'd lungs or conscious of their charge.”
“You'll Never See It My Way, Because You're Not Me!”

Source : "Lost in showbiz" by Marina Hyde, www.theguardian.com. June 14, 2007.
“In the seven or eight years we were together, we were never together.”
“Half of the receipts in our cookbooks are mere murder to such constitutions and stomachs as we grow here. ...in America, owing to our brighter skies and more fervid climate, we have developed an acute, nervous delicacy of temperament far more akin to that of France than of England.”

Source : Catharine Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe (2008). “American Woman's Home”, p.190, Applewood Books

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