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“A foul-mouthed oaf, a drunken laborer lying in a drain, a beaten wife with blackened eyes and torn clothes, cannot be made romantic to a child who sees how other children suffer from bad-tempered parents, from drunken fathers to termagant mothers.”
Source : Joyce Cary (1953). “Except the Lord: A Novel”, New York : Harper
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“[Donald] Trump was born on June 14, 1946, less than a year after the first and, thus far, only nuclear weapons were used in war.”
Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
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“The taboos that I have mentioned are extraordinarily harsh and numerous. They stand around nearly every subject that is genuinely important to man: they hedge in free opinion and experimentation on all sides. Consider, for example, the matter of religion. It is debated freely and furiously in almost every country in the world save the United States, but here the critic is silenced. The result is that all religions are equally safeguarded against criticism, and that all of them lose vitality. We protect the status quo, and so make steady war upon revision and improvement.”
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“I bleed and breathe Hawks. Even when I played for other teams I felt funny, because I was a Hawk.”
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“Usually, impersonations come out of something you dig, because you're listening to it over and over. And you kind of start developing... You're really trying to emulate them, then you realize, 'I sound ridiculous doing this. Oh, hey, maybe this is a funny impersonation.”
Source : "Random Rules: Alex Borstein". Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. November 20, 2006.
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“Can we go to work now? Because we're about a minute away from breaking out the ice cream and talking about our feelings, and I don't think we can come back from that.”
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“The Victorian world is extremely dark and extremely bright.”
Source : Source: collider.com
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“The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.”
Source : The Human Province "1943" (1978) (translation by Joachim Neugroschel)