"About endings....unless we do them well, we have to keep repeating them."

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Source : Ursula Hegi (2011). “Stones from the River”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

Ursula Hegi

“Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.”
“If you put good apples into a bad situation, youâ€™ll get bad apples.”
“I think it magnified it. For me, I wasn't sheltered so I think it was magnified. Especially when you're a teenager and you go to high school and you're in the business and you are known.”

Source : John Scalzi (2014). “Old Man's War Boxed Set I”, p.250, Macmillan
“Ulysses He ... saw the dark tangled curls of his bush floating, floating hair of the stream around the limp father of thousands, a languid flatong flower.”
“When you meet a man who is broken, pick him up and carry him. When you meet a woman whoâ€™s broken, put her all into your arms. Cause we donâ€™t know where we come from â€¦ we donâ€™t know where we are.”
“Clarity and perseverance are difficult in American society because the basis of capitalism is greed and dissatisfaction.”
“the fool is the one true cosmopolite - the one character common to all nationalities.”
“After the war in Afghanistan, Anna [Wintour, editor of Vogue], deciding to save the world one hair-roller at a time, thought the best way to help the women in this beleaguered country was to start a small beauty school in Kabul, where aid workers could get their roots done. Vanity Fair, edited by Bush-basher Graydon Carter, cheered her great humanitarian effort.”

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