"Then she yelled after the girl, 'No, we haven't seen any bald 'uns all days. But yesterday seventeen of 'em went by. Arm in arm!"

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Source : Astrid Lindgren (2015). “Pippi Longstocking”, p.34, Oxford University Press - Children

Astrid Lindgren

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“We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives of groups.”

Source : Deborah Tannen (2013). “You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation”, p.15, Harper Collins
“Terrible is the fight put up by the senses. Fight bravely! Conquer them you must.”
“I want to be remembered as a guy who inspired, encouraged and made people laugh.”
“Reporters immediately push their interviewees into the most extreme version by saying in a shocked tone, 'Well, are you saying that ..." They're trying to make people be as hostile and opposed to each other as possible because they think only conflict is news.”
“Mercy is a source of life because we breathe our own spirits through it into the lives of others.”
“A trophy carries dust. Memories last forever.”
“Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it.”
“By the time Kafka was seven or eight years old, he already had a relatively dark view of the world derived from experiences in his own family. This told him that the world was organized in a strictly hierarchical manner and that those on the top were allowed to mete out punishment in any way they chose. They were entitled to leave those on the bottom uninformed about the rules to which they subscribed; they weren't even required to follow their own rules - this is how Kafka described it in his later Letter to My Father.”

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