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“Alone in her shelter, she allowed herself tears. When her shelter cooled to the touch she called to Gull, “Coming out!†She eased her head out into the smoky air, looked over at Gull. She imaged they both looked like a couple of sweaty, parboiled turtles climbing out of their shells. “Hello, gorgeous.†She laughed. It hurt her throat, but she laughed. “Hey, handsome.”
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“Problem with segregation isn't that people can't live in peaceful harmony singing "Kumbaya" - although that wouldn't be bad. The problem is that many of these Whitopian communities are taking state, local, and federal resources with them.”
Source : "Journey into the Heart of Whiteness". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. December 23, 2009.
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“in her dreams, blood tasted like fizzy strawberry soda. If you drank it too fast, you got brain freeze. When she was older, after she'd licked a cut on her finger, the taste of that became the taste in her dreams: copper and tears.”
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“The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.”
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“Having no diplomatic representation in Washington, China has no sources which allow her to check the character of applicants and therefore makes the practice of refusing everybody from the United States.”
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“I only do one thing at a time; otherwise, I get confused and then I can't trick you.”
Source : "Character: Judge Judy". "Judge Judy", TV Series, www.imdb.com. (1996– ).
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“I love different kinds of movies, and I love different kinds of people. That's the spice of life.”
Source : Source: collider.com
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“I always loved twilight: it was the only time of day I had the feeling that something important could happen. All things were more beautiful bathed in twilight, all streets, all squares, and all the people walking through them; I even had the feeling that I was a handsome young man, and I liked looking at myself in the mirror, watching myself in the shop windows as I strode along, and even when I touched my face, I felt no wrinkles at my mouth or forehead.”
Source : Bohumil Hrabal (1992). “Too Loud a Solitude”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt