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“Humans are not as unsophisticated as mulch wrigglers, they can see the writing on the wall. Is it any surprise, that among the ones who look outward, the real debate is not over whether to run, but over how far and how fast?”
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“In The Last of Her Kind, Sigrid Nunez once again creates characters of such depth and situations of such vivid moral complexity that reading these pages is like living them. Only as I closed the book did I sadly realize that Georgette and Ann weren't my neighbors. But happily I can revisit them again, and again, in this beautiful and absorbing novel.”
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“Didn't help to ponder things that were forever gone. It only made a body restless and fill up with bees, all wanting to sting something.”
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“Faith is the act of trust by which one being, a sinner, commits himself to another being, a Saviour.”
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“Hardly any animal can look as deeply disappointed as a dog to whom one says "no."”
Source : Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (1998). “Dogs Never Lie about Love: Reflections on the Emotional World of Dogs”, Broadway Books
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“Donald Trump very clearly said America first. That is a traditional right wing, but also very isolationist. That takes us back to the era of the 1920s, when there were immigration restrictions, and also to the isolationism before World War II.”
Source : "Trump's Inauguration Sets Up Uncertain Future For Conservative Movement". Interview with Robert Siegel, wxxinews.org. January 20, 2017. 
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“I would normally never set out to write a trilogy.”
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“Good mothers make all kinds of choices. Making a decision that might sound selfish does not make a woman a bad mother.”
