"The word 'however' is like an imp coiled beneath your chair. It induces ink to form words you have not yet seen, and lines to march across the page and overshoot the margin. There are no endings. If you think so you are deceived as to their nature. They are all beginnings. Here is one."

-- Hilary Mantel

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“Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn't.”
“Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of exiles.”

Source : "The New Colossus" l. 1 (1883).
“That is what poetry can do. It speaks to us of what does not exist, which is not only better than what exists, but even more like the truth.”

Source : Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1983). “First love”, Viking Adult
“Every handsome man had a flaw. It was just her luck that in William's case that flaw was lunacy.”
“I have found that a smile and a stick will carry you through all right, and in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it is the smile that does the trick.”
“For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.”
“Falling in love is not the only adventure worthy of a young woman.”
“Bread is for us a kind of successor to the motherly breast, and it has been over the centuries responsible for billions of sighs of satisfaction.”

Source : Margaret Visser (2015). “The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Manners”, p.16, Open Road Media

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