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“Before Cliff (Richard) and The Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music.”
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“I like bold colors but usually wear black.”
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“And while some healing does happen, it isn't a healing of redemption or epiphany. It's more like the slow absorption of a bruise.”
Source : Joan Wickersham (2008). “The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order”, p.317, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“A woman knows a skirt-chaser.”
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“There are some things in this establishment that are fundamental... about which I shall deal plainly with you... the government by a single person and a parliament is a fundamental... and... though I may seem to plead for myself, yet I do not: no, nor can any reasonable man say it... I plead for this nation, and all the honest men therein.”
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“Nothing is forever in the theatre. Whatever it is, it's here, it flares up, burns hot, and then it's gone.”
Source : "Fictional character: Karen". "All About Eve", www.imdb.com. 1950. 
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“Somewhere deep within the marrow of our marrow, we were the same.”
Source : Kamila Shamsie (2011). “Kartography”, p.45, A&C Black
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“Even now, as I write this, I can still feel that tightness. And I want you to feel it--the wind coming off the river, the waves, the silence, the wooded frontier. You're at the bow of a boat on the Rainy River. You're twenty-one years old, you're scared, and there's a hard squeezing pressure in your chest. What would you do? Would you jump? Would you feel pity for yourself? Would you think about your family and your childhood and your dreams and all you're leaving behind? Would it hurt? Would it feel like dying? Would you cry, as I did?”
