"Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge."

-- Erwin Knoll

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“I'm training myself to go back to the way I used to record before electronic programs.”

Source : "Toro Y Moi Talks New Album, Underneath the Pine". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. November 23, 2010.
“The deeper one delves, the worse things look for actively managed funds.”
“They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an abandoned child never forgets.”
“It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.”
“Growing up, I wish I hadn't tried so hard to fit in. I'd tell myself to just embrace what you were born with because it's beautiful and you were made like that for a reason. It's tough being a girl. I think we need all of the support we can get.”

Source : "Shay Mitchell Exclusive Interview". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. June 26, 2012.
“Americans relate all effort, all work, and all of life itself to the dollar. Their talk is of nothing but dollars.”

Source : Nancy Mitford, Alan Strode Campbell Ross (1956). “Noblesse oblige: an enquiry into the identifiable characteristics of the English aristocracy”, Hamish Hamilton
“My mother finally took me to a child psychologist, who knew exactly what I was, but she just couldnâ€™t accept it and kept trying to tell my folks I was reading their body language and was very observant, so I had good reason to imagine I heard peopleâ€™s thoughts. Of course, she couldnâ€™t admit I was literally hearing peopleâ€™s thoughts because that just didnâ€™t fit into her world.”
“The figures of the past go cloaked. They walk in mist and rain and snow And go, go slowly, but they go.”

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