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“It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you.”
Source : Ouida (2016). “Signa”, p.14, Ouida
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“The power of death signifies that this real world can only have a neutral image of life, that life's intimacy does not reveal it's dazzling consumption until the moment it gives out.”
Source : Georges Bataille (1989). “Theory of religion”, Zone Books (NY)
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“I am convinced that I do not want to give up more power to the White House, whether it's George Bush or Barack Obama. And I'm going to fight as hard as I can against President Obama on these earmarks and my Republican colleagues who hate to vote for them, but love to get them.”
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“it is wrong to chide the novel for being fascinated by mysterious coincidences... but it is right to chide man for being blind to such coincidences in his daily life. For he thereby deprives his life a dimension of beauty.”
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“It is the loss of the feminine counterpart of God that causes the wound that never heals..”
Source : Margaret Starbird (1993). “The Woman with the Alabaster Jar: Mary Magdalen and the Holy Grail”, p.19, Simon and Schuster
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“It's an organic thing that I try not to analyze too much, because I worry that it will go away.”
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“The vehemence of my moral indignation surprised me. Was I beginning to have standards and principles, and, oh dear, scruples? What were they, and what would I do with them, and how much were they going to get in my way?”
Source : Elaine Dundy (2010). “The Dud Avocado”, p.80, New York Review of Books
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“Whether you like another bands music or not you never know who is going to take you out on tour or who you are going to be friends with and that is just something that is important to us.”
