"Hometown is like my quilts. Sometimes when you are in sweet dreams, you don't feel it's comfortable."

-- Yao Ming

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“Drummed into me, above all, by my dad, by the whole family, was that without your good name, you would be nothing.”
“I wish the opera was every night. It is, of all entertainments, the sweetest and most delightful. Some of the songs seemed to melt my very soul.”

Source : Fanny Burney, Evelina (fict.name.) (1820). “Evelina; or The history of a young lady's introduction to the world [by F. Burney].”, p.45
“If I am not elected, I imagine that I will ask Harvard to let me back.”
“If you stand too close to a painting - all you see are patches of color, if you stand too far back, you can't see any of the detail.”
“No cowboys for Canada. Canada got Mounties instead - Dudley Do-Right, not John Wayne. It's a mind-set of "Here I come to save the day" versus "Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker.”

Source : Sarah Vowell (2003). “The Partly Cloudy Patriot”, p.149, Simon and Schuster
“I am a simple vessel with complex overtones, opinionated on occasions but willing to listen. Comfortable with reclusiveness and devoted to privacy and family. Patriotic to a fault and allergic to cruelty, ignorance and bad music.”
“I apologize for my terrible interview skills. I wasn't prepared to expose stories about something so special and wonderfully private that is happening in my life. I guess a part of me wishes that I'd never have to and that maybe I could protect this special time. I was dreaming.”
“But when you dwell in a house you mislike, you will look out of a window a deal more than those that are content with their dwelling.”

Source : Mary Webb (2013). “Precious Bane”, p.93, Read Books Ltd

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