"I am big. It's the pictures that got small."

-- Billy Wilder

“Loneliness doesnâ€™t exist on any single plane of consciousness. Itâ€™s generally a low throb, barely audible, like the hum of a Mercedes engine in park, but every so often the demands of the highway call for a burst of acceleration, and the hum becomes a thunderous, elemental roar, and once again youâ€™re reminded of what this babyâ€™s carrying under the hood.”
“They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love.”
“Every single one of us possesses the strength to attempt something he isn't sure he can accomplish. It can be running a mile, or a 10K race, or 100 miles. It can be changing a career, losing 5 pounds, or telling someone you love her (or him).”

Source : Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman (2012). “Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?”
“Generation after generation of women have pledged to raise their daughters differently, only to find that their daughters grow up and fervently pledge the same thing.”

Source : Elizabeth Debold, Marie C. Wilson, Idelisse Malavé (1993). “Mother daughter revolution: from betrayal to power”, Da Capo Press
“The [Liberal] federal government's trouble is that they have a wishbone where they should have a backbone.”
“Don't let them tell you ain't beautiful”
“And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.”

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