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“Jack was balancing a spoon on his nose when I walked in. "You," I said knocking it off his face. "Me!" He answered cheerfully.”
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“That would have been a nice place, inside an idea, but it wasn't a place to live. It was necessary to live where the idea and the fact collided.”
Source : 1985 The BigMan, ch.8.
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“Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death – fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant.”
Source : Edna Ferber (1939). “A Peculiar Treasure”
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“Women do not avoid fighting because they are dainty or scared, but because they have a greater stake than men in staying alive to rear their offspring. Women compete with each other just as tenaciously as men, but with a stealth and subtlety that reduces their chances of being killed or injured.”
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“We see nation-states collapsing all around us: Libya, Syria, Iraq. We do not want another failed state in our neighborhood, which would rapidly turn into a stronghold for terrorists, as we have seen in Gaza. We do not want tunnels to suburbs of Tel Aviv or missiles pointed at Jerusalem.”
Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
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“When kindness comes at the expense of truth, it is not a kindness worth having. And when generosity leads to silence or abuse, it is not a generosity worth giving.”
Source : "The Curse of the Good Girl". Book by Rachel Simmons, www.today.com. 2009. 
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“You've got to use the life you've been given to give others life”
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“I guess there should be somewhere on the Internet that feels like a source of sacred truth. But Wikipedia sure isn't it.”
