"Why could we say more to each other when it counted less?"

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Source : Laura Dave (2007). “London Is the Best City in America”, p.162, Penguin

Laura Dave

“What is family? They were the people who claimed you. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they were the ones who showed up, who stayed there, regardless.”
“Motor racing is like one big family, ultimately, and when you come back to it, that's really what it feels like.”
“Never buy a saddle until you have met the horse.”
“I do not know the needs of a god or of another world... I do know that women make shirts for seventy cents a dozen in this one.”
“If people did not want their stories told, it would be better for them to keep away from me.”

Source : Sherwood Anderson (1924). “A Story Teller's Story: The Tale of an American Writer's Journey Through His Own Imaginative World and Through the World of Facts, with Many of His Experiences and Impressions Among Other Writers--told in Many Notes--in Four Books--and an Epilogue”, p.332, University of Michigan Press
“She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love, not misplace disgust for another person's genetics.”
“If the Lord should once more give us sunshine and I do not give you enough fighting, I will never ask you to come out again.”
“Physical pain is not a simple affair of an impulse, travelling at a fixed rate along a nerve. It is the resultant of a conflict between a stimulus and the whole individual.”

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