"The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture."

-- Antonio Tabucchi

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“It was tough attempting to be social with people who'd rather pretend you didn't exist.”

Source : Heather Brewer (2008). “Ninth Grade Slays #2: The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod”, p.37, Penguin
“Family life! The United Nations is child's play compared to the tugs and splits and need to understand and forgive in any family.”
“Your eyes flashed fire into my soul. I immediately read the words of Dostoyevsky and Karl Marx, and in the words of Albert Schweitzer, I FANCY YOU!”
“Don't doubt me, because that's when I get stronger....”
“NOTHING is impossible to you.”
“People found it unusual to leave a job where you're the boss.”

Source : "The "How Does a Host of Working Work?" Transcript" by Adam Davidson, David Plotz, www.slate.com. May 18, 2015.
“It's no stretch to picture me standing next to Al Pacino or Robert De Niro. Those are ethnic New York men. I'm an ethnic New York girl. Everybody has their limitations. I mean, I should never be cast as Queen Elizabeth.”
“there is no yesterday or tomorrow; there is only this moment. Twenty-four hours a day. Seven days a week. Three hundred sixty-five days a year.”

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