"When I was sixteen, it was simple. Poetry existed; therefore it could be written; and nobody had told me â€” yet â€” the many, many reasons why it could not be written by me."

-- Margaret Atwood

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“Commercials were too phony for me. I just didn't like selling products I didn't believe in.”
“Thatâ€™s the really annoying thing about love. I probably would be happier if I didnâ€™t know it, but once you do know it, once you feel those things for someone, you canâ€™t make yourself really wish it away. Itâ€™s like wishing away . . . your soul. - Jenny”
“Climate helps to shape the character of peoples, certainly no people more than the English. The uncertainty of their climate has helped to make the English, a long-suffering, phlegmatic, patient people rather insensitive to surprise, stoical against storms,. slightly incredulous at every appearance of the sun, touched by the lyrical gratitude of someone who expects nothing and suddenly receives more than he dreamed.”
“So I was still guilty. And if I was not guilty because one cannot be guilty of betraying a criminal, then I was guilty of having loved a criminal.”

Source : Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.134, Vintage
“If you're a baseball fan and you don't know what BP is, you're working in a mine without one of those helmets with the lights on it.”
“We used two Princess Cruise ships. The Island Princess and The Pacific Princess. They were identical ships.”
“It's the ugly things I notice more, because other people tend to ignore the ugly things.”

Source : "Alexander McQueen Exhibition Extended Until August 7th" by Margie Goldsmith, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 8, 2011.
“You never want to have to give your child bad news of any kind.”

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