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“Music's the best thing we do as humans, isn't it? Music, I mean you flail your limbs, make you move in a way you don't understand. Or it can make you weep like a sailor's wife staring at a storm.”
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“Suddenly, I found I was married to a millionaire.”
Source : "Thy Pitcher's Wife". Interview with Lillian Ross, www.newyorker.com. June 6, 2005. 
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“Even the Lord had skeptical members of His party.”
Source : "The Last Good Campaign" by Thurston Clarke, www.vanityfair.com. June 2008.
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“Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success.”
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“The club [Real Madrid] has a fantastic set-up with marvellous people. The atmosphere at training is perfect - it's just wonderful”
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“The vicissitudes of life resemble one of those gilded balls seen in a fountain. Thrown up by the force of the water, it flies up and down - now at the top, catching the rays of the sun, now cast into the depths, then again shooting up, sometimes so high that it escapes altogether, and falls to the ground.”
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“I never saw a moor, I never saw the sea; Yet know I how the heather looks, And what a wave must be. I never spoke with God, Nor visited in Heaven; Yet certain am I of the spot, As if a chart were given.”
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“My life's purpose is to write poetry - but behind the poetry must be the vision of a fresh revelation for men.”
Source : William Soutar (2000). “Into a Room: Selected Poems of William Soutar”, Argyll Publishing
