"Whatever you lend let it be your money, and not your name. Money you may get again, and, if not, you may contrive to do without it; name once lost you cannot get again."

-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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“Neocons say we attack them because they are Jewish. We do not. We attack them because their warmongering threatens our country, even as it finds a reliable echo in Ariel Sharon.”
“I always overpay or overtip when I'm upset.”
“The word is half his that speaks, and half his that hears it.”
“There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.”

Source : Marva Collins, Civia Tamarkin (1984). “Marva Collins Way”, Tarcher
“I feel strangely free at such times. To behave properly is to be always courteous, always clever, and subtle and elegant. But now, when I am so alone, I do not have to be any of these things. For this moment, I am wholly myself, unshaped by the needs of others, by their dreams or expectations or sensibilities. But I am also lonely. With no one to shape me, who stands here, watching the moon, or the stars, or the clouds?”

Source : Kij Johnson (2001). “The Fox Woman”, p.57, Macmillan
“The moon slid inexorably into its zenith, the shadows shrivelling to the feet of all that cast them, and as Rantel approached the hollow at the hem of the Twisted Woods he was treading in a pool of his own midnight.”

Source : Mervyn Peake (1995). “The Gormenghast Novels”, Overlook Books
“We chart delusions through collective agreement.”
“Cocteau is someone who has made such a profound impression on me that there's no doubt he's influenced every one of my films.”

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