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“Nobody is the author or producer of his own life story ... somebody began it and is its subject in the twofold sense, namely, its actor and sufferer ... but nobody is the author ...”
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“Financial peace isn't the acquisition of stuff. It's learning to live on less than you make, so you can give money back and have money to invest. You can't win until you do this.”
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“Rippling, rippling, rippling, like a flapping overlapping of soft flames, soft as feathers, running to points of brilliance, exquisite, exquisite and melting her all molten inside.”
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“I don't particularly like going on about being gay or making a big thing about it, but I think it's a bit of a pain to be secretive about it.”
Source : "Think of me as a man of mystery" by Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. November 05, 2005.
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“Tis from high Life high Characters are drawn; A Saint in Crape is twice a Saint in Lawn: A Judge is just, a Chanc'llor juster still; A Gownman learn'd; a Bishop what you will; Wise if a minister; but if a King, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more ev'rything.”
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“There's no sustenance in the past.”
Source : Violette Leduc (1965). “La bâtarde: an autobiography”
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“Hard to believe that so nearby, just across the Channel, such atrocities could still occur in their supposedly civilized world, that one could wake up one morning and find oneself bereft of brothers, parents, friends, all with the slice of an ax.”
Source : Lauren Willig (2010). “The Mischief of the Mistletoe: A Pink Carnation Christmas”, p.65, Penguin
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“Pele called me the greatest footballer in the world. That is the ultimate salute to my life.”
Source : "George Best dies, aged 59" by Mark Oliver, www.theguardian.com. November 25, 2005.