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“I have often wondered how anyone who does not read, by which I mean daily, having some book going all the time, can make it through life. Indeed if I were required to make a sharp division in the very nature of people, I would be tempted to make it there: readers and nonreaders of books... It is astonishing how the presence or absence of this habit so consistently characterizes an individual in other respects; it is as though it were a kind of barometer of temperament, of personality, even of character. Aside from that, for me it constituted something like sanity insurance.”
Source : William Brinkley (2013). “The Last Ship: A Novel”, p.65, Penguin
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“If we get public education right, everything else will follow. But if we get it wrong, not much else will matter.”
Source : "Problems We Face Together". Representative Steve Kagen, United States House of Representatives, July 21, 2007.
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“But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.”
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“In the full light of day, I don't want to think about the sunset.”
Source : "The poet and the princess" by Gabriel García Márquez, www.theguardian.com. June 7, 2002. 
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“A lot of people come to America all the time for economic opportunities. This country is this huge work farm and you can make a lot of money here.”
Source : Source: www.avclub.com
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“When I hear a guy lost a battle to cancer, that really did bother me, that that's a term. It implies that he failed and that somebody else that defeated cancer is heroic and courageous.”
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“Coming near him like a ballet dancer she took a leap towards him, and he, frightened by her vehemence, and fearing that she would crash against him, instinctively became absolutely rigid, and she felt herself embracing a statue.”
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“I wouldn't change it," Simon said. "I wouldn't give up loving you. Not for anything. You know what Raphael told me? That I didn't know how to be a good vampire, that vampires accept that they're dead. But as long as I remember what it was like to love you, I'll always feel like I'm alive.”
