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“My sons are very protective and loving towards me, but I don't know what's in their secret minds about me.”
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“And what we students of history always learn is that the human being is a very complicated contraption and that they are not good or bad but are good and bad and the good comes out of the bad and the bad out of the good, and the devil take the hindmost.”
Source : Robert Penn Warren (1996). “All the King's Men”, p.372, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“I want more children but for the next three years I want to act.”
Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“The advent of truth, like the dawn of day, agitates the elements, while it disperses the gloom.”
Source : Elias Lyman Magoon (1849). “Proverbs for the people: or, Illustrations of practical godliness drawn from the Book of wisdom”, p.219
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“For the first couple of years I played really bad tennis. It was so bad that they booed me off the court”
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“The pleasures of intimacy in friendship depend far more on external circumstances than people of a sentimental turn of mind are willing to concede; and when constant companionship ceases to suit the convenience of both parties, the chances are that it will be dropped on the first favourable opportunity.”
Source : Hester Lynch Piozzi (1861). “Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale)”, p.100
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“How can God entrust great things to one who will not thankfully receive from Him the little things?”
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“In good novelistic fashion, the discovery I’ve made is that it’s complicated. I think that’s one of good things about exploring these questions in a non-polemic, fictional way: you get to feel out territory rather than take positions. Through writing this, I can understand the impulse to faith, how people make meaning, how people make community, without having to say, do this, don’t do that, or I believe, I don’t believe.”
Source : "Starting into the void with Hari Kunzru" by Rollo Roming, www.newyorker.com. March 13, 2012.