"What do two women friends usually do when they see each other? We talked, we watched television, we listened to music Sometimes we did nothing at all. It was a pleasure just to know the other one was there."

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Source : Andrea Camilleri (2010). “The Voice of the Violin”, p.44, Pan Macmillan

Andrea Camilleri

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“Every man is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing.”
“No. The universe has to move forward. Pain and loss, they define us as much as happiness or love. Whether it's a world, or a relationship... Everything has its time. And everything ends.”

Source : "Doctor Who: School Reunion". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2006.
“Detest it as lewd intercourse, it can deprive you of all your leisure, your health, your rest, and the whole happiness of your life. Having himself spent a lifetime unsuccessfully trying to prove Euclid's postulate that parallel lines do not meet, Farkas discouraged his son JÃ¡nos from any further attempt.”
“The situation in America is when it starts moving there, all the bands from England move over to America and work from there, so that they're available all the time for everyone that wants them in person.”
“For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in an industrial state, with its high degree of specialization, make for corresponding classification of status.”

Source : Kenneth Burke (1962). “A grammar of motives, and A rhetoric of motives”
“The Heart asks Pleasure--first-- And then--Excuse from Pain”
“I think Democrats made a mistake running away from liberalism. Liberalism, uh, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John and Robert Kennedy - that's what the Democratic party ought to reach for.”
“Focus on quality of life, and enjoy a life worth living. Researchers have said that only 4% of people enjoy both their work and their personal life.”

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