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“The sun was shining like a congratulation.”
Source : Margaret Millar (2018). “Experiment in Springtime”, p.95, Soho Press
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“Texas senator and tea party favorite Ted Cruz announced he's running for president. He pledged to lead America boldly forward into the 1950s.”
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“When something does not insist on being noticed, when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull by a presence or an event, we take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”
Source : "Noted with pleasure". The New York Times Archives, www.nytimes.com. 1984.
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“I borrow bits from everyone.”
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“I do understand that you can look into someone’s eyes,†I heard myself saying, “and suddenly know that life will be impossible without them. Know that their voice can make your heart miss a beat and that their company is all your happiness can ever desire and that their absence will leave your soul alone, bereft and lost.”
Source : Bernard Cornwell (1997). “The Winter King: A Novel of Arthur”, p.360, Macmillan
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“Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.”
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“It is especially taboo for a wine writer to admit that he or she likes the buzz. But wine is a full sensory experience. It's not just tasting notes.”
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“Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.”
Source : Oliver Sacks (2011). “Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain”, p.127, Pan Macmillan