"No human being can go on living in the same house with a pigeon, a pigeon is the epitomy of chaos and anarchy, a pigeon that whizzes around unpredictably, that sets it's claws in you, picks at your eyes.."

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Source : Patrick Süskind (2015). “The Pigeon”, p.11, Penguin UK

Patrick SÃ¼skind

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“As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.”

Source : Charles Horton Cooley (2017). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.231, Routledge
“The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.”
“In my lowest moments, when I genuinely longed for death, I knew that Jesus would walk with me through that valley as well.”
“While the men of the steel industry were going through blood and gas in defense of their rights and their homes and their families, elsewhere on the far-flung C.I.O. front the hosts of labor were advancing and intelligent and permanent progress was being made.”

Source : Labor and the Nation, delivered 3 September 1937 in Washington D.C.
“I had this great urge... I had it the day I was born. Some may call it destiny. My parents and friends called it dismaying.”
“Ooh, it's too embarrassing to share my innermost romantic secrets - although I have written Danielle the odd poem. If anything they are more comedic than romantic. They used to be well-received but that was before she started studying Shakespeare at drama college. Now I feel so inept.”
“I always say that one has no right to hope without endeavor,”
“I listen to music two ways: As a person, you have an instinctive, personal, emotional response. But as a music supervisor, you have a secondary response, which is, 'Will this sit well under dialogue?' 'Can people die to this?' 'Can people kiss to this?”

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