"When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?"

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Source : Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.11, W. W. Norton & Company

Nicole Krauss

“That's one of the good things about being from the political centre, you're willing to work with both side of politics.”

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“We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.”
“Incorruptibility by money is the old story... Now it's incorruptibility by media.”
“I'm in a period of growth and expansion. I'm taking long, hard looks at the world and what's happening in it, analyzing and thinking. I'm trying to become acquainted with the universe - with the part of it I occupy - and trying to settle, for myself, what my relationship with it is.”
“I had a hard time publishing my books in the beginning of my career, because editors were afraid what people would think of THEM, personally, if their name was associated with me”
“All too often we fail to ask what we are trying to sustain. Ultimately, sustainability must be measured by the endurance of thriving human communities.”
“I'm acting when I serve as a hostess, when I run my wig business. I was born to act, and life itself is the greatest part.”
“When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women.”

Source : Harriet Ann Jacobs (2006). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.92, Prestwick House Inc

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