"Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrama."

-- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

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“I made a list of the happiest periods in my life, and I realized that none of them involved money. I realized that building stuff and being creative and inventive made me happy. connecting with a friend and talking through the entire night until the sun rose made me happy. Trick-or-treating in middle school with a group of my closest friends made me happy. Pickles made me happy.”
“Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.”
“My name, Paloma, means 'dove' in Spanish. It stands as a symbol of peace and purity.”
“I have a very bad habit of just retreating from any given altercation.”
“Mankind has always made too much of its saints and heroes, and how the latter handle the fuss might be called their final test.”

Source : "Baseball Was Very, Very Good to Him". The New York Times, October 29, 2000.
“If every life is a river, then it's little wonder that we do not even notice the changes that occur until we are far out in the darkest sea. One day you look around and nothing is familiar, not even your own face. My name once meant daughter, grandaughter, friend, sister, beloved. Now those words mean only what their letters spell out; Star in the night sky. Truth in the darkness. I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I'd be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.”
“I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.”
“What else is death but the refusal any longer to grow and suffer change?”

Source : Karin Hansson, David Malouf (1991). “Lund Studies in English”

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