"When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole."

-- William Makepeace Thackeray

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“A girl who is really pretty - whether she wraps herself in an abayah, a nun's habit, or the front hall rug - never wraps herself so that the world can't tell.”
“Nothing beats a haunted moonlit night on All Hallows Eve.... And on this fatal night, at this witching time, the starless sky laments black and unmoving. The somber hues of an ominous, dark forest are suddenly illuminated under the emerging face of the full moon.”
“Sometimes people think that that you are going softer, or you are going mainstream, but that's not true. It's way more true to change your style.”
“Write a little every day, without hope, without despair.”
“Shakespeare is like mashed potatoes, you can never get enough of him.”

Source : Frank McCourt (1999). “Angela's Ashes: A Memoir”, p.274, Simon and Schuster
“Art must not be concentrated in dead shrines called museums. lt must be spread everywhere â€“ on the streets, in the trams, factories, workshops, and in the workers' homes.”

Source : "Shrine or Factory?" by Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1918.
“Running is special. We've all done it: well, poorly, focused, in fear, being pursued, toward a goal. It's just elemental. Running is like fire.”
“Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry' is a aphorism which has saved many an English spinster from being treated like an Indian widow.”

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