"And so they played some of the world's loveliest piano music - the exiled homesick girl, the humiliated, tired old man. Not properly. Better than that."

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Source : Eva Ibbotson (2008). “The Secret Countess”, p.101, Pan Macmillan

Eva Ibbotson

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“Women, as well as men, in all ages and in all places, have danced on the earth, danced the life dance, danced joy, danced grief, danced despair, and danced hope. Literally and metaphorically, by their very lives.”

Source : Margaret Laurence (1989). “Dance on the earth: a memoir”, McClelland and Stewart
“We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we eat from out the mouths of starving babes.”
“Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.”
“A lonely impulse of delight”
“So we're all right, an' I, for one, Don't think our cause'll lose in vally By rammin' Scriptur' in our gun, An' gittin' Natur' for an ally.”
“I grew during segregation in an all-black segregated neighborhood with segregated schools, etcetera. I was raised by a great father, my hero, who I much admired. So, I never really had anxiety in the way that someone like Obama would have. When he walks down the street alone, since no one knows who his mother is, they're just going to see him as a black guy.”

Source : "Shelby Steele: The Why Obama Can’t Win Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. February 27, 2008.
“My solution to the problem of unleashingÂ creativityÂ is always to set up a target.”
“(...) I donÂ´t want a drink. I just want to know where am I? -YouÂ´re not in Kansas anymore!- Jake chuckled at his own joke.”

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