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“In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.”
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“Diplomacy is to do and say, the nastiest thing in the nicest way.”
Source : The Reflex, Oct. 1927
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“I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn't, So I jumped in and sank.”
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“Never give up...never ever give up.”
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“I live by Edith Whartons rule to get rid of anything neither useful nor beautiful. So I put the TV out on the street.”
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“Why do people stop developing, or, like they stop the way you can rate their, psychologically, their development? Where they stop, and just from being children to maybe stopping at a very adolescent age, and they stay there until they die. Physically die. I mean, they react adolescently. They don't change. They don't develop. They don't — it's that continual read, that process which is is the total threat for the ego.”
Source : "Edie: Girl On Fire". Book by David Weisman and Melissa Painter, 2006.
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“Now here's a good one: you're lying on your deathbed. You have one hour to live. Who is it, exactly, you have needed all these years to forgive?”
Source : Louise Penny (2015). “The Chief Inspector Gamache Series”, p.657, Macmillan
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“It was kind of ridiculous to carry it up to a certain point and then drop the ball or the bomb, like quitting the band right after we had signed to Virgin.”