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Elizabeth Strout

"And yet, standing behind her son, waiting for the traffic light change, she remembered how in the midst of it all there had been a time when she'd felt a loneliness so deep that once, not so many years ago, having a cavity filled, the dentist's gentle turning of her chin with his soft fingers had felt to her like a tender kindness of almost excruciating depth, and she had swallowed with a groan of longing, tears springing to her eyes."

-- Elizabeth Strout

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“Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against the natural instinct to pay back evil with evil.”
“Charity, by which God and neighbor are loved, is the most perfect friendship.”
“Mitt doesn't like to talk about how he has helped others because he sees it as a privilege, not a political talking point.”
“I will have failed in this if in five years there are not many more people using public transport and far fewer journeys by car. It is a tall order but I want you to hold me to it.”
“Good collaboration essentially boils down to personalities who work well together and are able to integrate each other's notes and ideas without killing each other.”
“The trouble with emergencies is," she said, "that I always put on my finest underwear and then nothing happens.”
“Let us truly be a temple-attending and temple-loving people...We should not go only for our kindred dead, but also for the personal blessings of temple worship, for the sanctity and the safety that are within those hallowed and consecrated walls. As we attend the temple, we learn more richly and deeply the purpose of life and the significance of the atoning sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ. Let us make the temple, together with temple worship and temple covenants and temple marriage, our ultimate earthly goal and the supreme mortal experience.”
“I grew up in Rome, in actually what I would say was a liberal, open-minded family. My father was an architect and my mother was a teacher of art history, so it was sort of intellectual, and maybe a bit much for me when I was a child.”

Source : Interview with Dave Gahan, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 12, 2011.

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