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“Women are like those blinkin' little Greek islands, places to call at but not to stay.”
Source : Stacy Aumonier (1935). “Ups and downs: stories”
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“Sometimes, there are no simple or easy solutions to gray area problems. Or, put differently, the "solution" is working intelligently, with many other people, for months or even years - guided by a basic direction and a few central values that really matter to you and others.”
Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
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“I started Pilates. I'm the only guy in there. They plot before I get there: 'How can we make John look ridiculous?' Because every exercise involved my legs up, like I'm in the stirrups or something.”
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“We all know people who are ridiculously famous, and it's a scary thing because all of the sudden people - even the people you are close to - stop being honest with you, stop telling you the truth.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“Wisdom and beauty form a very rare combination.”
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“The germ of a story is a new and simple element introduced into an existing situation or mood.”
Source : Malcolm Cowley (1978). “And I worked at the writer's trade: chapters of literary history, 1918-1978”, Viking Adult
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“If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.”
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“What's bad about my biography? My father was a worker, my brothers, too, and I have always honestly served my country.”
Source : "The 900 Days: The Siege Of Leningrad". Book by by Harrison E. Salisbury, p.112, 2003.