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“Human beings are still fish.”
Source : YouTube Chanel "Living Waters"/ "Evolution vs. God", www.youtube.com. August 6, 2013. 
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“The amazing activity of the cat is delicately balanced by his capacity for relaxation. Every household should contain a cat, not only for decorative and domestic values, but because the cat in quiescence is medicinal to irritable, tense, tortured men and women.”
Source : William Lyon Phelps (1939). “Autobiography: with letters”, Ams Pr Inc
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“My thoughts went round and round and it occurred to me that if I ever wrote a novel it would be of the 'stream of consciousness' type and deal with an hour in the life of a woman at the sink.”
Source : Barbara Pym (2006). “Excellent Women”, p.120, Penguin
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“She liked being reminded of butterflies. She remembered being six or seven and crying over the fates of the butterflies in her yard after learning that they lived for only a few days. Her mother had comforted her and told her not to be sad for the butterflies, that just because their lives were short didn't mean they were tragic. Watching them flying in the warm sun among the daisies in their garden, her mother had said to her, see, they have a beautiful life. Alice liked remembering that.”
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“If my results are not good I will lose my job.”
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“...One of the side effects of (surgery, anesthesia,) X-ray..., and chemotherapy, is the suppression...of the patient's immunological defenses...A simple cold often leads to the death from pneumonia - and ('pneumonia') is what appears on the death certificate, not cancer.”
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“Too many films today feel formulaic and familiar. I prefer it when the familiar is made to feel strange.”
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“I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.”
Source : "Abel Ferrara: 'I made Scarface look like Mary Poppins'" by Andrew Purcell, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2010.
