"Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like."

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Source : Arnold Bennett (2015). “The Title: A Comedy in Three Acts”, p.18, The Floating Press

Arnold Bennett

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“I was an extroverted kid and performed, like, acting and singing. Then, the older I got, I realized I enjoyed performing things that I came up with myself more and I enjoyed making people laugh more than making people cry or think.”
“Growing up, I was sort of a tomboy. I was the one skating with the boys.”
“What if The Odyssey has no more validity or authenticity than one of the other stories that you hear Odysseus telling? Whoever created The Odyssey was incredibly hip to stuff that we think, in our post-modernist, post-structuralist era, we're uncovering for the first time; but we aren't.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Life was neither something you defended by hiding nor surrendered calmly on other people's terms, but something you lived bravely, out in the open, and that if you had to lose it, you should lose it on your own terms.”

Source : FaceBook post by Edwidge Danticat from Oct 31, 2013
“Iâ€™m such an idiot - the thing was I was in there because this homeless guy was hungry. I went past and thought â€˜Iâ€™m going to go in and get him some wedges.â€™ I was actually doing a good deed. Itâ€™s so me to end up the other way around where Iâ€™ve done damage.”
“The direction Eun Gi is trying to go, I don't know. How you're going to go that way. What you're trying to do going that way. I don't know. With what thoughts... With what mind she is taking that way... Even if I ask, Eun Gi won't answer. The only thing I know, is that, I, next to Eun Gi who is going that way, it could be that I can't go that way with her together.”
“Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.”
“Bizet was a very young man when he composed this symphony, so play it softly.”

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