"Oh, no-" They weren't even on the runway, and Jonah's father was already immersed in his BlackBerry. "Remember those 'Live Large with the Wiz Generation' posters? Well, guess how that translates into Chinese- 'Jonah Wizard Makes Your Ancestors Fat'."

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Source : Gordon Korman (2010). “The Emperor's Code”, p.112, Scholastic Inc.

Gordon Korman

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“I'm not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this woman was something like an assembly line for my soul. I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?”

Source : Carson McCullers (1964). “The ballad of the sad café”
“A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.”

Source : "A Counterblaste to Tobacco". 1604.
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“Man tried to imitate God by drawing; then we invented the photo.”
“Nowhere else did repressions, purges, suppressions, and all other kinds of bureaucratic hooliganism in general acquire such horrifying scope as in Ukraine, in the struggle against powerful forces concealed in the Ukrainian masses that desired more freedom and independence.”
“Try claiming God's blessings instead of merely longing for them.”
“It's not what you say, but what you do that defines your individuality”
“The key to happiness is accepting one unpleasant reality every day.”

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