"You're never alone when you're reading a book."

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Source : Susan Wiggs (2013). “The Drifter”, p.46, Harlequin

Susan Wiggs

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“The media in America has become so cowed and compromised.”

Source : " Liberal America's last stand" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 2005.
“In offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope they will make the strong and lasting impression I could wish; that they will control the usual current of the passions, or prevent our nation from running the course which has hitherto marked the destiny of nations. ... moderate the fury of party spirit, to warn against the mischiefs of foreign intrigue, to guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism; this hope will be a full recompense for the solicitude for your welfare, by which they have been dictated.”
“The rain fluctuates between drizzle and torrential. It messes with your mind. It makes you think things will always be like this, never getting better, always letting you down right when you though the worst was over.”
“But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.”

Source : "Randy Newman: 'I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth'" by Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2011.
“I don't know that we'll get into Earth 1 thru 616 in any one moment anytime soon.”
“Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.”
“One can speak poetry just by arranging colors well, just as one can say comforting things in music.”
“As a child, I remember asking my parents when I was five years old, "How come if you are not Zionists, you came to the country?" I was surprised at myself that I asked this question. It means that it was always in the air. Then years later I understood it was because of the Holocaust, because they were refugees. They did not come as immigrants and, because of the illusions of the '50s and the late '40s, my mother said, "The world must be better." She could not imagine that it wouldn't be different.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

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