"Using someone's name during a conversation was like a casual caress, like stroking their hair."

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Source : Harry Mulisch, Paul Vincent (1997). “The Discovery of Heaven”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

Harry Mulisch

#Hair Quotes #Names Quotes #Conversation Quotes

“Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other... I know I've spent each life before this one searching for you. Not someone like you but you, for your soul and mine must always come together.”
“Fear is the most debilitating emotion in the world, and it can keep you from ever truly knowing yourself and others - its adverse effects can no longer be overlooked or underestimated. Fear breeds hatred, and hatred has the power to destroy everything in its path.”
“My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do.”
“You can't have a situation in which companies proceed on a permanent basis relying only on cash from the government.”
“The mere existence of atomic weapons implies the possibility of their use.”

Source : "The arms race: a programme for world disarmament" by Philip John Noel-Baker, (p. 297), 1960.
“I try to make songs visual and tactile to kind of put you into the action.”

Source : Interview with Andrew Ford, www.abc.net.au. April 24, 2004.
“There was unusual unanimity on our pastoral responsibility to care for the immigrants in our midst no matter their country of origin or religious affiliation.”
“Sometimes I try to do too much.”

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