"I've got to relearn what I was supposed to have learned."

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Source : Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1967). “Myself”, Harvill Secker

Sylvia Ashton-Warner

“Wherever you go, there are three icons that everyone knows: Jesus Christ, Pele and Coca-Cola.”
“You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.”
“The secret of a happy marriage is simple: Just keep on being as polite to one another as you are to your friends.”
“Libraries, whether my own or shared with a greater reading public, have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I can remember I've been seduced by their labyrinthine logic, which suggests that reason (if not art) rules over a cacophonous arrangement of books.”

Source : Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.9, Vintage Canada
“The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I know whom I have believed.”
“...the human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer than the other one, that bleeds so readily.”
“I, myself, deeply regret what happened between me and President Clinton. Let me say it again: I. Myself. Deeply. Regret. What. Happened.”

Source : "Exclusive: Monica Lewinsky writes about her affair with the president Clinton". www.vanityfair.com. May 6, 2014.

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