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“I felt that I could swim for miles, out into the ocean: a desire for freedom, an impulse to move, tugged at me as though it were a thread fastened to my chest. It was an impulse I knew well, and I had learned that it was not the summons from a larger world I used to believe it to be. It was simply a desire to escape from what I had.”
Source : Rachel Cusk (2015). “Outline”, p.39, Random House
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“I've always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I'm feeling in the moment.”
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“It's so much easier to have a crush on someone who you know isn't going to respond-it makes it nice and safe and you never have to humiliate yourself by getting knocked back.”
Source : Hester Browne (2006). “The Little Lady Agency”, p.258, Simon and Schuster
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“Filipinos everywhere are known for their love of God, their fervent piety and their warm devotion to Our Lady and her rosary”
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“You will deal with ignorant, opinionated and innocent people. You will often have an opportunity to cheat them. If they could, they would cheat you, or force you to sell at less than cost. You must be wise, but not too wise. You must never actually cheat the customer, even if you can. You must make her happy and satisfied, so she will come back.”
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“If you want to "tone and build," it is time to pick up some iron - that's the way we can get a muscle to grow.”
Source : "Get Fit for 2013: Chris Powell Answers 'GMA' Viewers' Questions". "Good Morning America", abcnews.go.com. January 4, 2013. 
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“Literature is being taught as though it were only political medicine or political poison-a view that is not only illiberal but illiterate.”
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“...we live in a selectively infantilized culture where twentysomethings are children if they're serving in the Third Infantry Division in Ramadi but grown-ups making rational choices if they drop to the broadloom in President Clinton's Oval Office...”
