"With languages, you can move from one social situation to another. With languages, you are at home anywhere."

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Source : Edmund de Waal (2010). “The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance”, p.22, Random House

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“In the early 2000s, I was going through a lot. I didn't have my head screwed on right. Where I was at as a man, I was still growing up.”
“It's great to be black in Hollywood. When a black actor does something, it seems new and different just by virtue of the fact that he's black.”
“A president is supposed to calm the American people with sober decision-making in the national interest.”
“Love and help all the children, all the days of your existence. They need us.”
“Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.”
“The best way to become more creative is to create nothing. By this, I mean that you should return to zero point. Rid yourself of all the mental and emotional blocks that keep you from manifesting your full creative potential.”
“Sometimes when I wake up, I forget that she's gone and then I remember and my heart drops like it does when you miss a step or trip over a kerb.”
“Words may move but they're never moving fast enough”

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