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“She wore a gown the color of storms, shadows, and rain and a necklace of broken promises and regrets.”
Source : Susanna Clarke (2005). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.162, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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“Monarch, thou wishest to cover thyself with glory; be the first to submit to the laws of thy empire.”
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“The big characters who occupy science, especially modern science, are all "off" in fundamental ways. I don't think that genius goes hand in hand with being socially inept or being a sociopath or being a misanthrope, but I do think that it is a mind that can think so differently - so beyond how one is supposed to think. I wanted to pay tribute to that mind.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“You can never read your own book with the innocent anticipation that comes with that first delicious page of a new book, because you wrote the thing. You've been backstage. You've seen how the rabbits were smuggled into the hat. Therefore ask a reading friend or two to look at it before you give it to anyone in the publishing business. This friend should not be someone with whom you have a Âromantic relationship, unless you want to break up.”
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“I fight AIDS because it's a killer disease, destroys the human race in all fields.”
Source : "Ex-freedom fighter Kenneth Kaunda on Africa's new battles", www.cnn.com. August 4, 2010. 
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“But it feels good to love a thing and not expect anything back. It feels good to not get an argument or any pushiness or any rumors or any bullshit. It's love without strings. It's ideal.”
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“I love everything about that because when he goes out there Javy Baez is not afraid of making a mistake, and that's big thing when you get players that are en masse not concerned about making mistakes, really good stuff can happen. That's, he leads the pack with that.”
Source : Source: m.cubs.mlb.com
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“I dislike frontiers, political or intellectual, and I find that ignoring them is an essential catalyst for creative thought. Ideas should flow without hindrance in their natural course.”
