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“Harry looked at Bellman. He could not help but admire him. The way you admire a cockroach you flush down the toilet and it comes creeping back again and again and in the end it inherits the world.”
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“An oil massage, a hot bath, a good night's sleep, soft smells and music and clothes with soft textures denote sensuality to me.”
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“Who can say how many lives have been saved by books?”
Source : Michelle Cliff (2009). “Everything is Now: New and Collected Stories”, p.95, U of Minnesota Press
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“Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't try to write fiction. It's not a grand enough job for you.”
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“I am selective. If I do splash out, it's an investment, and I wear things for years.”
Source : "My life in shopping: Erin O'Connor, model". Interview, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2009. 
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“It's just seems life without music would be death.”
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“Exercise is roughly the only equivalent of a fountain of youth that exists today, and its free to everyone.”
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“I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.”
Source : Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, Thomas Nelson Inc
