"I wish I knew how to quit you."

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Source : Annie Proulx (2005). “Brokeback Mountain”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

Annie Proulx

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“English is the result of Norman men-at-arms attempting to pick up Saxon barmaids and is no more legitimate than any of the other results.”
“It's like one of those dreams you have when someone is chasing you. You're running as fast as you can, and someone's trotting behind you, just out of range, trying to grab onto you.”
“Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful.”
“No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.”
“When I pick up the ball and it feels nice and light and small I know I'm going to have a good day. But if I picked it up and it's big and heavy, I know I'm liable to get into a little trouble.”
“The hardest lesson of my life has come to me late. It is that a nation can win freedom without its people becoming free.”

Source : Joshua Nkomo, SAPES Trust (2001). “Nkomo: the story of my life”
“Having made a sufficient opening to admit my finger into the abdomen, I passed it between the intestines to the spine, and felt the aorta greatly enlarged, and beating with excessive force. By means of my finger nail, I scratched through the peritoneum on the left side of the aorta, and then gradually passed my finger between the aorta and the spine, and again penetrated the peritoneum, on the right side of the aorta. I had now my finger under the artery, and by its side I conveyed the blunt aneurismal needle, armed with a single ligature behind it...”

Source : Sir Astley Cooper (1835). “Lectures on the Principles and Practice of Surgery”, p.213
“It doesn't mean anything when we go back to Sydney and its round one and we're starting from scratch in the NRL. That's the one we really want.”

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