"The thing about Dickens is you either love him or you hate him and I fell in love with Dickens, I fell in love with his prose style and I decided that I wanted to read the whole Dickens verve during the course of my life."

-- George Brandis

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“Nobody ought to be too old to improve: I should be sorry if I was; and I flatter myself I have already improved considerably by my travels. First, I can swallow gruel soup, egg soup, and all manner of soups, without making faces much. Secondly, I can pretty well live without tea ...”

Source : Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.65
“I didn't even think of my breasts in a nostalgic way, I just wanted to be able to live my life without that fear all the time. It's not 'pity me', it's a decision I made that's got rid of this weight that I was carrying around.”

Source : "Sharon Osbourne reveals she had preventive double mastectomy" by Lizzy Davies, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2012.
“The isness of things is well worth studying; but it is their whyness that makes life worth living.”

Source : "On Aggression". Book by Konrad Lorenz, 1963.
“Poetry fettered fetters the human race.”
“Among our crimes oblivion may be set.”
“My hope is that this life is not all there is. This life is like preparation for what is coming next, and what is coming next is something so glorious that the Bible says minds can't conceive it, eye has never seen, your imagination could never even enter into all that God is preparing for those who love him.”
“Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own”
“They say the good die young, so the bad die old. Guess we somewhere in the middle, so just pray for my soul.”

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