"We could have saved sixpence. We could have saved fivepence. But at what cost?"

-- Samuel Beckett

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“You know, it's very clear, as one looks back on history again of the Cold War that, following the crisis in Cuba, following the Khrushchev - beating down of Jack Kennedy in Vienna, that President Kennedy believed that we had to join the battle for the Third World, and the next crisis that developed in that regards was Vietnam.”
“You can not make someone love you. You can not be thin enough or white enough or famous enough. The choice is entirely the other person's. Then again, you might try hypnosis.”

Source : Jessica Zafra (1997). “Chicken pox for the soul”
“In marriage, compromise nurtures the relationship.”
“I became a millionaire overnight by signing a piece of paper. I made more money in that one second than my entire family did in their lifetime.”
“So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids.”
“The Holy Spirit's motivation is always the same thing -to charge the word with heaven's own electric power.”
“We are so placid that the smallest tremor of objection is taken as a full-scale revolution.”
“The Violin of my dreams. If you wanna play a pianissimo that is almost inaudible and yet it carries through a hall that seats 3,000 people, there's your Strad.”

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