"Some are blessed with musical ability, others with good looks. Myself, I was blessed with modesty."

-- Roger Moore

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“If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress.”
“She wondered how people would remember her. She had not made enough to spread her wealth around like Carnegie, to erase any sins that had attached to her name, she had failed, she had not reached the golden bough. The liberals would cheer her death. They would light ***** cigarettes and drive to their sushi restaurants and eat fresh food that had traveled eight thousand miles. They would spend all of supper complaining about people like her, and when they got home their houses would be cold and they'd press a button on a wall to get warm. The whole time complaining about big oil.”

Source : "The Son". Book by Philipp Meyer, 2013.
“Nom de Plume uses the device of the pseudonym to unite the likes of Charlotte Bronte, Mark Twain, Fernando Pessoa, and Patricia Highsmith into a cohesive yet highly idiosyncratic literary history. Each page affords sparkling facts and valuable insights onto the manufacturing of books and reputations, the keeping and revealing of secrets, the vagaries of private life and public opinion, and the eternally mysterious, often tormented interface between life and literature.”
“Embrace change, even when the change slaps you in the face.”

Source : "World's oldest man dies at 114" by Elizabeth Flock, www.washingtonpost.com. April 15, 2011.
“It's not really that I've been an advocate for hearing aids for a long time, it's just that I've been losing my hearing for a long time! So it's actually very important for me because I'm actually hearing impaired and I simply want to hear better!”
“Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.”
“Secrets had an immense attraction to him, because he never could keep one, and he enjoyed the sort of unhallowed thrill he experienced when he went and told another animal, after having faithfully promised not to.”
“I called to the other men that the sky was clearing, and then a moment later I realized that what I had seen was not a rift in the clouds but the white crest of an enormous wave.”

Source : Ernest Shackleton (2004). “South: The Endurance Expedition”, p.149, Penguin

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