"Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it."

-- A. N. Wilson

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“It is obvious that putting the Arab-Israeli dispute on a resolution track would be an important element of overcoming the confidence problem in the region.”
“In my opinion, giving a kiss is a much better prize than receiving one.”
“I have control of my own style.”

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“Who do I belong to? How come I mortgaged my being till I don't belong to myself? How come I sold my blood? And who now owns my indecisions, my hands, my private pain, my pride?”
“August is ripening grain in the fields blowing hot and sunny, the scent of tree-ripened peaches, of hot buttered sweet corn on the cob. Vivid dahlias fling huge tousled blossoms through gardens and joe-pye-weed dusts the meadow purple.”

Source : Jean Hersey (1967). “The Shape of a Year”
“But a mother-son relationship is not a coequal one, is it? He is lonely with only you just as you are lonely with only him.”
“Girls are a distraction and can easily cost points.”
“Growing up in politics I know that women decide all elections because we do all the work.”

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