"I wanted to live in Paris and write nothing but fiction and be perfectly free. I had decided all this had to be settled by the time I was thirty, and so I gave up my job and moved to Paris at twenty-eight. I just held my breath and jumped. I didnâ€™t even look to see if there was water in the pool."

-- Mavis Gallant

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“I've owned mopeds in the past.”

Source : "Brett Dalton: The New TV Star We're Lusting After". Interview with Jennifer Heyde, www.marieclaire.com. October 29, 2013.
“Today we no longer ask what really goes on in an atom; we ask what is likely to be observed-and with what likelihood-when we subject atoms to any specified influences such as light or heat, magnetic fields or electric currents.”

Source : Otto Robert Frisch (1980). “What Little I Remember”, p.20, Cambridge University Press
“If we only fell in love with people who were perfect for us...then there wouldn't be so much fuss about love in the first place.”
“Yes, I'd love to have a garden of my own--spacious, and full of everything that is fragrant and flowering. But if I don't succeed, never mind--I've still got the dream.”

Source : Ruskin Bond, Ruskin (2008). “Ruskin Bond's Book of Nature”, p.34, Penguin Books India
“A wise person is like a smoothly polished rock: it takes time to become either.”
“I am who I am and I have the need to be.”
“You may own a cat, but cannot govern one.”
“We are all too keenly aware that those of you who supported us by purchasing the 3DS in the beginningmay feel betrayed and criticize this decision [to cut the console's price]â€¦”

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