"In Spain, however, people have found a way of cheating death. They summon it to appear in the afternoon in the bull ring, and they make it face a man. Death - a fighting bull with horns as weapons - is killed by a bullfighter. And the people are there watching death being cheated of its right."

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Source : Maia Wojciechowska (2012). “Shadow of a Bull”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

Maia Wojciechowska

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“Well, once you've resigned yourself to the fact that you are the more mature pop performer and you're past the age you ever thought you would do it, you might as well do it as long as you can. As long as I can still lift a microphone, then I'll do it, you know.”
“Please don't throw me in dat briar patch!”
“Foreigners are sending messages to the planets. We are sending rice and cereals to our dead fore-father through the Brahmins. It is a wise deed?”

Source : Collected works of Periyar E.V.R., p. 511, 2005.
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“Cholesterol to go with alcohol; all the bad things in English-speaking life end in -ol.”
“I'm going to leave y'all with one thought. I'm a big believer in fate. I have a good feeling about this.”
“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”

Source : "The New Colossus" l. 10 (1883).

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