"When you lose your parents as a child, you are indoctrinated into a club, you re taken into life's severest confidence. You are undeceived."

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Source : Hilary Thayer Hamann (2011). “Anthropology of an American Girl”, p.74, Hachette UK

Hilary Thayer Hamann

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“In the nineteenth century the Germans painted their dream and the outcome was invariably vegetable. The French needed only to paint a vegetable and it was already a dream.”
“The present is the key to the past”

Source : Charles Lyell (2005). “The Geological Evidence of Man”, p.8, Cosimo, Inc.
“When you're cold, don't expect sympathy from someone who's warm.”
“There ought to be something about computers and artificial intelligence [in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations]. Surely somebody somewhere said something memorable.”
“We are reading the story of our lives As though we were in it As though we had written it.”

Source : Mark Strand (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.145, Knopf
“This gown, is it cut from shadow?" the general asked. "I can barely feel it between my fingers." Not for want of trying, thought Madrigal. "Perhaps it is a reflection of the night sky," he suggested, "skimmed from a pond?" She supposed that he was being poetic. erotic, even. In return, as unerotically as possible- more like complaining of a stain that wouldn't come out-she said, "Yes, my lord. I went for a dip, and the reflection clung.”
“Seventy percent store-bought, ready-made plus 30 percent fresh allows you to take 100 percent of the credit.”
“The trickster, the riddler, the keeper of balance, he of the many faces who finds life in death and who fears no evil; he who walks through doors.”

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