"Hey,â€ the cabbie yelled. â€œHowâ€™s about a tip?â€ â€œYou bet-ski,â€ Evie said, heading toward the old Victorian mansion, her long silk scarf trailing behind her. â€œDonâ€™t kiss strange men in Penn Station."

-- Libba Bray

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“No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.”
“Geology is part of that remarkable dynamic process of the human mind which is generally called science and to which man is driven by an inquisitive urge. By noticing relationships in the results of his observations, he attempts to order and to explain the infinite variety of phenomena that at first sight may appear to be chaotic. In the history of civilization this type of progressive scientist has been characterized by Prometheus stealing the heavenly fire, by Adam eating from the tree of knowledge, by the Faustian ache for wisdom.”

Source : "The Scientific Character of Geology". The Journal of Geology, Vol. 69, No. 4, p. 454, July 1961.
“I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.”
“It's an ongoing process of reinterpreting the strike zone in accordance to the rulebook. The umpires, I think, are doing an excellent job of bringing the outside pitch in closer to the plate. But I still think we have a lot of work to do with the low end of the strike zone.”
“The World Cup tournament overall and, naturally, the new stadiums at its heart, are the ideal platform to portray Germany as a positive and exceptional location, and above all of course, as a highly capable economic location.”
“If we fail to adapt, we fail to move forward.”
“There is always something else to do. A gardener should have nine times as many lives as a cat.”
“When I desire you a part of me is gone...”

Source : Anne Carson (2014). “Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay”, p.30, Princeton University Press

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