"I want a sofa, as I want a friend, upon which I can repose familiarly. If you can't have intimate terms and freedom with one and the other, they are of no good."

-- William Makepeace Thackeray

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“Those who are mastering more and more the communications revolution, those who realize that there are no borders in the world, are the ones who are going to leap ahead.”
“Anyone desperate enough for suicide... should be desperate enough to go to creative extremes to solve problems: elope at midnight, stow away on the boat to New Zealand and start over, do what they always wanted to do but were afraid to try.”
“Â“I was a little, skinny, runt kid, and I decided that bowling was what I was going to do in life.Â””

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Parents and children cannot be to each other, as husbands with wives and wives with husbands. Nature has separated them by an almost impassable barrier of time; the mind and the heart are in quite a different state at fifteen and forty.”

Source : Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters”, p.65
“Photography has always been capable of manipulation.”

Source : "False witness" by Charlotte Higgins, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2004.
“Long before I had ever seen a ritualistic service I became a Ritualist.”

Source : Ronald Arbuthnott Knox (1958). “A Spiritual Aeneid”
“I came in the Dawson's Creek era; it was all about tiny guys who looked like teenagers, and I haven't looked like a teenager ever. So I was, like, auditioning to be their dads. At 25.”
“I set myself some specific goals, but the key one is just getting myself into as good a shape as possible for one day this year: the Olympic marathon.”

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