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“In heterosexual love there's no solution. Man and woman are irreconcilable, and it's the doomed attempt to do the impossible, repeated in each new affair, that lends heterosexual love its grandeur.”
Source : Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.35, Grove Press
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“She reached down and traced my eyebrows. 'You do have really beautiful eyes.' 'We get to keep them,' I said. Grace started at my voice. 'What?' 'It's the one thing we keep. Our eyes stay the same.' I unclenched my fists. 'I was born with these eyes. I was born for this life.”
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“I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.”
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“Relationships are hard. You're lucky if you find someone.”
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“You know, the primary process itself is very confusing. But in the end, I guess I believe what Winston Churchill said, which is that democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others. And that phrase of his, which I always have previously thought to be kind of acute, more recently I've thought of it in this way, to say well, you know what, he's also saying it's the worst form of government - except for all of the others.”
Source : "The American Political Invention That 'Let The People Rule'". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. December 26, 2015. 
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“Intimacy doesn't have all that much to do with backseats of cars. Real intimacy is brushing your teeth together.”
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“I travel. I do a lot of traveling around the world.”
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“To mess around with Ebola is an easy way to die. Better to work with something safer, such as anthrax.”
Source : "The Hot Zone: The Chilling True Story of an Ebola Outbreak". Book by Richard Preston, December 31, 2012.
