"There's something incredibly liberating about a holiday that encourages children to take candy from strangers"

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Source : Steve Almond (2004). “Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America”, p.30, Algonquin Books

Steve Almond

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“The only crime, the only crime is to take a life. There is nothing else.' 'And that's why you don't fight,'I say. She turns to me sharply. 'To preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.”
“Nobody's perfect, but all of us can be better than we are.”
“I' ve got quite narrow feet and they are size 12. I would sometimes get blisters when I was younger but fortunately I don t have much trouble with my feet nowadays.”

Source : "Peter Crouch Interview - Puma PowerCat 1.10". SoccerBible Interview, www.soccerbible.com. March 20, 2014.
“The Divine Music is incessantly ringing within all of us, but the loud senses drown the delicate Music, which is unlike and infinitely superior to anything we can perceive with our senses.”
“Fiction cannot recite the numbing numbers, but it can be that witness, that memory. A storyteller can attempt to tell the human tale, can make a galaxy out of the chaos, can point to the fact that some people survived even as most people died. And can remind us that the swallows still sing around the smokestacks.”
“I'm not one of those women who thinks beauty is a curse.”

Source : "Diane Kruger on starring in Quention Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds". www.mirror.co.uk. August 21, 2009.
“My wife is the sweetest, most tolerant, most beautiful woman in the world. This is a paid political announcement.”
“What fetters the mind and benumbs the spirit is ever the dogged acceptance of absolutes.”

Source : Edward Sapir, David Goodman Mandelbaum (1985). “Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality”, p.159, Univ of California Press

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