"Someone once said you could tell the people who were in the most successful relationships by the bite marks on their tongues."

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Source : Barbara Seranella (2001). “Unfinished Business: A Munch Mancini Crime Novel”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

Barbara Seranella

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“The only certainty about writing and trying to be a writer is that it has to be done, not dreamed of or planned and never written, or talked about (the ego eventually falls apart like a soaked sponge), but simply written; it's a dreadful, awful fact that writing is like any other work.”
“We need to become energy independent or at least aspire to that.”
“What drives people to public service is a sense of possibility. If you haven't sensed that possibility you don't get started in the same way, you don't feel you can have an impact.”
“There are mysteries, secret zones in each individual.”
“Everybody likes to say that Roger Federer is the Greatest Player of all time because its so nice to watch him play...but you have got to throw in Nadal's Mind as well...and That's the GREATEST OF ALL TIME!!!”
“London doesn't love the latent or the lurking, has neither time, nor taste, nor sense for anything less discernible than the red flag in front of the steam-roller. It wants cash over the counter and letters ten feet high.”
“Poetry demands a different material than prose. It uses another facet of the same fact â€¦ the spontaneous conformation of language as it is heard.”
“The State always moves slowly and grudgingly towards any purpose that accrues to society's advantage, but moves rapidly and with alacrity towards one that accrues to its own advantage; nor does it ever move towards social purposes on its own initiative, but only under heavy pressure, while its motion towards anti-social purposes is self-sprung.”

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