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“The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.”
Source : Chinua Achebe (2009). “Things Fall Apart: Authoritative Text, Contexts and Criticism”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated
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“Juliana?†the words were low and far—too calm for her husband, who had found that he rather enjoyed the full spectrum of emotion now that he had experienced it. “Yes?†“What are you doing twenty feet in the air?†“Looking for a book.†“Would you mind very much returning to the earth?†“What are you thinking, climbing to the rafters in your condition?†“I am not an invalid, Simon, I still have use of all my extremes.†“You do indeed—particularly your extreme ability to try my patience—I believe, however, that you mean extremities.”
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“To simplify complications is the first essential of success.”
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“Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.”
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“I'm a lurker and a creep. Women don't like me because I sleep standing up, like a horse.”
Source : Source: freshfiction.tv
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“You’re walking down life’s road, society’s foot is on your throat, every which way you turn you can’t get from under that foot. And you reach a fork in the road and you can either lie down and die, or insist upon your life.”
Source : "Civil-rights Folk Legend Odetta Dies At 77" by Gil Kaufman, www.mtv.com. December 3, 2008. 
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“My friends keep telling me I'm doing it with Mary Palmer. That's not true - I'm too busy masturbating to meet anyone new.”
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“We don’t choose between experiences, we choose between memories of experiences. Even when we think about the future, we don’t think of our future normally as experiences. We think of our future as anticipated memories.”
