"How cruel it must be for a man to live past his soul."

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Source : Lori Lansens (2009). “The Girls”, p.411, Vintage Canada

Lori Lansens

#Past Quotes #Men Quotes #Soul Quotes

“I was chef to the French Presidents between '56 and '59, finished with de Gaulle, and during de Gaulle I remember serving Eisenhower, Nehru, Tito, Macmillan; those were the heads of state at the time. I never saw anyone. No one would ever, ever, ever come to the kitchen. You couldn't even see them.”

Source : "Jacques Pã©pin Is Not A Mallow Man" by Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2012.
“Here's what's nice about life: Sometimes you have ideas and for the most part, they're not good ones. And then you'll follow through with a handful of them and sometimes you'll be pretty disappointed. And then other times you'll follow through and you'll go, 'You know what? It's nice to be right.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it.”
“I'll remind you one more time, I've treated a lot of vegans for heart disease.”
“A great scholar, in the highest sense of the term, is not one who depends simply on an infinite memory, but also on an infinite and electrical power of combination; bringing together from the four winds, like the Angel of the Resurrection, what else were dust from dead men's bones, into the unity of breathing life.”
“The key to a great story is not who, or what, or when, but why.”

Source : "Fictional character: Elliot Carver". "Tomorrow Never Dies", www.imdb.com. December 9, 1997.
“Not all popular novelists are good, but all good novelists are, sooner or later, popular.”
“In most of the world, we have only small remnants of the wildlife that once existed. Africa has the most astonishing wildlife still. Now Africa is modernizing. In the next twenty years, Africa is modernizing economically, and one of two things is going to happen. Either Africa will be just like the rest of the world and it's say goodbye to wildlife. Or, we can learn from the mistakes made in the rest of the world.”

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