"I was not much used to women except for mothers. Everything I did, they did different."

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Source : Daniel Woodrell (1999). “Ride with the Devil”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

Daniel Woodrell

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“We knew we'd be together, we didn't know when, But long distance love, never thought it would end. The feelings never changed until the call came... You were engaged, I was in pain. It was such a shame: the timing, it just wasn't right. So I say, 'Good luck,' and then I say, 'Good night.'”
“I press my ear against his chest, to the spot where I always rest my head, where I know I will hear the strong and steady beat of his heart. Instead, I find silence.”
“The German system is way less fair than it is expected to be, and the difference is becoming bigger. The private system, with its privilege to pay doctors and hospitals better, is basically putting the whole system at jeopardy, because many first-class hospitals and first-class physicians are wasting their time on trivial cases of privately insured and are no longer accessible for the difficult cases from the public system, despite [the fact] that the hospitals and also the education of those professionals is paid for by public money.”

Source : "Frontline", www.pbs.org. October 25, 2007.
“The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.”

Source : Toni Morrison (2007). “The Dancing Mind”, p.6, Vintage
“When I was a kid growing up in the States in the late '70s and early '80s, as soon as 'Dallas' came on on a Friday night on CBS at 9 P.M., we stopped everything from that moment on as a family.”
“It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know.”
“The difficulty of looking at a system like natural selection if you have any sort of moral sense yourself, is almost what makes it beautiful.”

Source : "Paul Bettany: Playing Darwin with Creation". Interview with Adam Rutherford, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2009.
“The librarian must be the librarian militant before he can be the librarian triumphant.”

Source : "The Relation of the State to the Public Library" by Melvil Dewey, 1889.

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