"We can understand the science of what makes a heart beat, but we can never stop it from breaking."

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Source : Beth Harbison (2011). “Always Something There to Remind Me”, p.28, Macmillan

Beth Harbison

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“Like most artists and musicians, I considered myself detached from the political life...but I had an insight that maybe we would have a political contribution to make in the future.”

Source : "Minister of Counterculture". Interview with Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2005.
“People have learned by bitter experience that the "European fraternal union of peoples" cannot be achieved by mere phrases and pious wishes, but only by profound revolutions and bloody struggles; they have learned that the question is not that of a fraternal union of all European peoples under a single republican flag, but of an alliance of the revolutionary peoples against the counter-revolutionary peoples, an alliance which comes into being not on paper, but only on the battlefield.”
“Perhaps the shortest and most powerful prayer in human language is help.”
“The Cheney team had, for example, technological supremacy over the National Security Council staff. That is to say, they could read their e-mails. I remember one particular member of the N.S.C. staff wouldn't use e-mail because he knew they were reading it. He did a test case, kind of like the Midway battle, when we'd broken the Japanese code. He thought he'' broken the code, so he sent a test e-mail out that he knew would rile Scooter [Libby], and within an hour Scooter was in his office.”
“There are people who think contraception is immoral because the object of copulation is procreation. In a similar way there are people who think the only reason to read a book is to write a book...”

Source : Helen DeWitt (2016). “The Last Samurai”, p.18, New Directions Publishing
“Simplicity, suitability and proportion.”

Source : Penny Sparke, Elsie De Wolfe (2005). “Elsie De Wolfe: The Birth of Modern Interior Decoration”, Acanthus PressLlc
“Nobody wants a fat lead singer.”
“It's an honor to paint cats.”

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