"I would like people to come into my Dreamworld and then choose to stay."

--

Helen Dunmore

“[on buying a private island] Money doesn't buy you happiness, but it buys you a big enough yacht to sail right up to it.”
“My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book.”
“God changes his appearance every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises.”

Source : Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). “Zorba the Greek”, p.208, Simon and Schuster
“If you had done something twice, you are likely to do it again.”

Source : Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike (1984). “The UNIX Programming Environment”, Prentice Hall
“She'd crack A joke sharp as a tin lid Hot from the teeth of the can-opener, And cackle her crack-corn laugh.”
“Such is human psychology that if we don't express our joy, we soon cease to feel it.”
“Blindness brought with it a million adjustments and losses and emotions. But, there really was this unshakeable sense, deep within me, that God had already prepared me for the darkness. And he did it through his Word.”

Source : Source: www.biblegateway.com
“Fortunately, an extremely sexy, pixie-voiced blond named Ronnie Harran, who booked the Whisky, saw us...She had an ear for talent...the Whisky was finally a gig we could be proud of...”

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