"New York, which is founded on forward motion and thus loath to acknowledge its dead, merely causes them to walk, endlessly unsatisfied and unburied, to invade the precincts of supposed progress, to lay chill hands on the heedless present, which does not know how to identify the forces that tug at its rationality."

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Source : Luc Sante (2016). “Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York”, p.10, Macmillan

Luc Sante

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“We are also told that this Spirit will enlighten our minds, fill our souls with joy, and help us know all things we should do.Promised personal revelation comes when we ask for it, prepare for it, and go forward in faith, trusting that it will be poured out upon us.”

Source : "And upon the Handmaids in Those Days Will I Pour Out My Spirit". Julie B. Beck's speech at the General conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April, 2010.
“I'm an ass-kicking fat kid.”

Source : "Officially Osbourne: Opening the Doors to the Land of Oz". Book by Ozzy Osbourne and Todd Gold, 2002.
“It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy.”

Source : "What Padma Lakshmi's Learned: Women Issue Preview" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. April 27, 2010.
“How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms”
“In New York - whose subway trains in particular have been "tattooed" with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame - not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements.”
“I fly around with chicks on each arm and have no script. I just talk about what I feel like. But that's why my act works: I'm like this normal guy.”
“When a man wants a mystery, it is generally better to leave him mystified. Nobody loves a clever woman.”

Source : Philippa Gregory (2012). “The Lady of the Rivers: A Novel”, p.349, Simon and Schuster
“I can't wait for the time when curves and a little belly fat will be sexy again!”

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