"Everything is as it was, I discover when I reach my destination, and everything has changed."

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Source : Michael Frayn (2009). “Spies”, p.6, Faber & Faber

Michael Frayn

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“Many things in life inspire philanthropy, such as your faith in humanity and your belief in the human spirit to overcome.”
“i've forgotten more than you'll ever know”
“Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.”
“Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion of imitators has). Unfortunately, her public life has dissolved into a series of staged photo ops.”
“I'm not a regular mom, I'm a cool mom.”
“I suspect, too, that the modern debates represent the effort of candidates with widely-varying constituencies and special interests to please to tip the hat as quickly as possible to as many of the constituencies and interests as possible. That leaves no time for big-picture issues. Contrast this with Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas, where the subject was only ever slavery, and the discussion went right to the bedrock of what a democracy is all about.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“You learn a lot about a person when she saves your life, - Mecho”
“There is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world, and people are glad to get away from them, as from a cold room.”

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