"Mrs. Daugherty was keeping my bowl of cream of wheat hot, and she had a special treat with it, she said. It was bananas. In the whole story of the world, bananas have never once been a special treat."

-- Gary D. Schmidt

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“The Prime Minister in the UK thinks spending and borrowing more is the right thing to do in the circumstances, and is busily trying to bail out chunks of the private sector which would otherwise have to adjust more quickly to the painful reality that we have been living beyond our means.”
“During the years 1945-1965 (I am referring to Europe), there was a certain way of thinking correctly, a certain style of politicaldiscourse, a certain ethics of the intellectual. One had to be on familiar terms with Marx, not let one's dreams stray too far from Freud.... These were therequirements that made the strange occupation of writing and speaking a measure of truth about oneself and one's time acceptable.”
“After a lifetime of nods, frowns and stoic smiles, they were both fluent in emotional shorthand.”

Source : Jamie Ford (2011). “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet”, p.80, Allison & Busby
“I think it's very much a men's thing to be able to have that fantasy to kill the beast.”
“I'm becoming too honest for my own good these days.”
“I feel myself always the patriot of all oppressed fatherlands. Nationality is a historic, local fact which, like all real and harmless facts, has the right to claim general acceptance. Every people, like every person, is involuntarily that which it is and therefore has a right to be itself. Nationality is not a principle; it is a legitimate fact, just as individuality is. Every nationality, great or small, has the incontestable right to be itself, to live according to its own nature. This right is simply the corollary of the general principal of freedom.”
“You've got to have the guts not to be afraid to screw up.”
“If you're that obsessed with someone, why would you kill her? Humans are full of contradictions.”

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