"You look for one thing and you find another."

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Source : Muriel Spark (2014). “Memento Mori”, p.131, New Directions Publishing

Muriel Spark

“I've found that luck is quite predictable.”
“Since the nineteen-fifties, rural Florida has marketed itself to Northerners and Midwesterners as an unexplored paradise of citrus and mermaids.”

Source : "The Strawberry Girls" by Anne Hull, www.newyorker.com. August 11, 2008.
“There's no one who can say 'this person is wrong there and right here', and that 'one is right about that and wrong about this'. This is what could allow populations, or even two human beings, to live together. We will only solve problems by the acceptance of, and enrichment by, our differences.”
“We have to be concerned that Russia is also increasing its military influence in Egypt, potentially in Libya, also in Afghanistan.”
“Solitude is separate experience.”

Source : Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.219, eBookIt.com
“I was fortunate enough to win a Super Bowl before retiring, and in fact I retired immediately after winning the Super Bowl. I went out on top, and intend to come out of the Guinness Pro Challenge on top, too.”
“Change is a measure of time and, in the autumn, time seems speeded up. What was is not and never again will be; what is is change.”

Source : Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp
“I like the labels because I think they tell my story in a very concise way: gay, Latino. I think the responsibility that comes with accepting labels is that now I get a chance to break stereotypes. It gives me the opportunity to tell the unique stories of what those labels mean.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

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