"I have so much to say to you. I want to begin at the beginning, because that is what you deserve. I want to tell you everything, without leaving out a single detail. But where is the beginning? And what is everything?"

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Source : Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.75, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Jonathan Safran Foer

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“Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.”
“Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.”
“Where the ball went was up to heaven. Sometimes I threw the ball clean up into the stands.”

Source : "Bob Feller, 1918-2010: One of Baseball's Finest Pitchers". "People In America" with Barbara Klein and Steve Ember (VOA Special English), learningenglish.voanews.com. January 8, 2011.
“Having decided to follow my own intuitive path I began to write music on the basis of harmonized spoken words, for new instruments and in new scales.”

Source : Harry Partch (2009). “Genesis of a Music: An Account of a Creative Work, Its Roots, and Its Fulfillments”, p.6, Da Capo Press
“Live long enough and you'll come into pensions, a lovely thing. Presents every month from people you didn't know cared.”

Source : Ruth Gordon (1980). “Ruth Gordon, an open book”, Doubleday Books
“No generality has any weight whatever. It is like saying "how do you do?" When you have no intention of inquiring about ones health. But specific claims when made in print are taken at their value”
“Her heart pounded as [Cam's] lips bypassed hers and came to a stop, whispering in her ear: 'Don't let him flip you off next time.”
“What I like about the jokes, to me it's a lot of logic, no matter how crazy they are. It has to make absolute sense, or it won't be funny.”

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