"My life was very tenuous last year. My daughter's death, in March in 2007, was unexpected. It was a shock. I didn't know if I'd survive it."

-- Phoebe Snow

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“True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.”
“But those two plays left me on fresh terms with language. I didn't always have to speak in my own voice.”

Source : James Ingram Merrill (2004). “Collected Prose”, Knopf
“There's only one way for a professional soldier to die. That's from the last bullet of the last battle of the last war.”
“I'm shooting a pilot based on my show. It's a one-camera show. I play myself.”
“If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened - that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death.”
“When the ideas are coming, I don't stop until the ideas stop because that train doesn't come along all the time.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I read somewhere that tongue-kissing was coined as an insult to the French reputation of sexual promiscuity. Apparently, American soldiers returned home from World War I and showed their wives and girlfriends what they learned abroad.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com
“But the conceit of one's self and the conceit of one's hobby are hardly more prolific of eccentricity than the conceit of one's money. Avarice, the most hateful and wolfish of all the hard, cool, callous dispositions of selfishness, has its own peculiar caprices and crotchets. The ingenuities of its meanness defy all the calculations of reason, and reach the miraculous in subtlety.”

Source : Edwin Percy Whipple (1866). “Character and Characteristic Men”, p.47

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