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“Dacca is now the free capital of a free country.”
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“A young man's ambition is to get along in the world and make a place for himself-half your life goes that way, till you're 45 or 50. Then, if you're lucky, you make terms with life, you get released.”
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“Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.”
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“Often what I need is even a darker darkness.”
Source : Valzhyna Mort (2014). “Collected Body”, p.5, Copper Canyon Press
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“I'm not a person who believes that Broadway is the only place. I think there's lots of work that goes on outside of Broadway and outside of New York that's better than anything Broadway has ever seen. But, it's historically the place. It's one of the centers of the universe, in many ways.”
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“If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.”
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“Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.”
Source : Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”
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“I'm a southern gentleman.”
