"We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of idle chatter we preserve Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Norse: we carry a museum inside our heads, each day we commemorate peoples of whom we have never heard."

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Source : Penelope Lively (2007). “Moon Tiger”, p.38, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Penelope Lively

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“Reaching and understanding is the process of bringing about an agreement on the presupposed basis of validity claims that are mutually recognized.”

Source : "On the Pragmatics of Communication". Book by Jürgen Habermas, 1998.
“Old paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to see the original lines: a tree will show through a woman's dress, a child makes way for a dog, a large boat is no longer on an open sea. That is called pentimento because the painter 'repented', changed his mind. Perhaps it would be as well to say that the old conception, replaced by a later choice, is a way of seeing and then seeing again.”

Source : Lillian Hellman, Jackson R. Bryer (1986). “Conversations with Lillian Hellman”, p.138, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“There is no way now to get around some use of embryos. But my goal is to avoid using them.”
“I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.”
“We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences.”

Source : "How Do Our Worst Moments Shape Us?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, andrewsolomon.com. August 01, 2014.
“Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general's warning.”
“Make an offer they can't refuse.”
“The way two people can end up in the same place, find each other in a crowd, and change their lives and the lives of the people around them forever... It makes you believe in fate. And fate gives love some authority. Like it's been stamped with approval from above, if you believe in above. A godly green light. Some destined significance.”

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