"It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years."

-- Tom Lehrer

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“No matter what happens in publicâ€”no matter whatâ€”donâ€™t doubt that I love you and care about your welfare . . . as much as I am able.”
“I have always been intrigued by the journals that girls keep. They are like dollhouses. Once you look inside them, the rest of the world seems very far away, even unbelievable. If only we had the power to keep outside ourselves at such moments, we would spare ourselves so much pain and fear. I'm not talking about truth or falsehood but about surviving.”

Source : Rachel Klein (2012). “The Moth Diaries”, p.5, Faber & Faber
“We'll be competitive with organized labor, we're also competitive with regular, unorganized labor, working people who see their stakes and their future in the plans we're putting forward to move Massachusetts forward.”
“Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent.”
“Sorrow has its life just like people. Sorrow is born and lives and dies. And when it's dead and gone, someone's left behind to remember it. Exactly like people.”

Source : Anne Holm (1990). “North to Freedom”, Odyssey Classics
“I do not think it pleases the Lord when we worry because we think we never do enough or that what we do is never good enough.”
“The human race has not devised any way of dissolving barriers, getting to know the other chap fast, breaking the ice, that is one-tenth as handy and efficient as letting you and the other chap, or chaps, cease to be totally sober at about the same rate in agreeable surroundings.”
“Sometimes you are the answer to your own prayer.”

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