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“From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.”
Source : A. E. Hotchner (2009). “Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir”, p.3, Da Capo Press
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“In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.”
Source : Roger Ascham (1815). “The English Works of Roger Ascham: Preceptor to Queen Elizabeth”, p.201
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“Life can make you do many things, even kiss a man with a runny nose.”
Source : "Mikhail Kalashnikov: 'I sleep soundly'". Interview with Nick Paton Walsh, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2003.
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“I like those crisis moments - if you're on top of it and don't get pulled under by panic and fear, it's a very bonding thing.”
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“David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph.”
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“None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.”
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“I like Palestinians in the morning when they come and we talk but in the evening, who knows, maybe they don't know that I'm nice.”
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“To a man who is uncorrupt and properly constituted, woman always remains something of a mystery and a romance. He never interprets her quite literally. She, on her part, is always striving to remain a poem, and is never weary of bringing out new editions of herself in novel bindings.”
Source : James Parton (1868). “Smoking and Drinking”, p.30