"How pleasant it is to be ignorant! Not to know exactly who Mozart was, to ignore his origin, his influence, the details of his technique! To just let him lead one by the hand."

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Source : Arturo Torres-Rioseco, Félix Pita Rodríguez, Lino Novás Calvo, Horacio Quiroga, Francisco Ayala (1967). “Short stories of Latin America”

Maria Luisa Bombal

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“I don't think of myself as fitting into a category. But I had to be careful in all of my books not to repeat things, because I have these ideas, and though the subjects were disparate, the same idea would come up through different portals.”
“When you buy a lottery ticket, you don't know how tickets have been sold. But sold they have been. And there is an underlying distribution for the game.”

Source : "The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why". Book by Robert Haugen, ch. 3, Estimating Portfolio Risk and Expected Return with Ad Hoc Factor Models, p. 29, 1999.
“You are beautiful in every single way. Words can't bring you down.”
“But really itâ€™s condescending and patronizing not to make fun of someone because theyâ€™re old or stupid or crippled or morbidly obese. Banged up people donâ€™t want your pity. They just want to be treated like everyone else. Mockery, when done without prejudice or discretion, can be a form of respect. Itâ€™s the closest weâ€™ll ever come to true equality.”
“The act of abortion positions women at their most powerful, and that is why it is so strongly opposed by many in society. Historically viewed as and conditioned to be passive, dependent creatures, victims of biological circumstance, women often find it difficult to embrace this power over life and death. They fall prey to the assumption, the myth, that they cannot be trusted with it.”

Source : Merle Hoffman (2012). “Intimate Wars: The Life and Times of the Woman Who Brought Abortion from the Back Alley to the Board Room”, p.59, The Feminist Press at CUNY
“Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!”
“if you want to be a little bit solitary and work very hard, you can do it more easily in New York than in a town like Paris or London. Because you depend so much for human relationships here on the phone. If you don't answer your phone, you are quite a lonely couple.”
“The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.”

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