"My wife was the first art collector in the family, and I didn't become interested until around 1973. The first important artwork we bought was a Van Gogh drawing of two peasant houses in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer."

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“She'd play around and tease me with her carefree devil eyes. She'd hold me close and kiss me, but her heart was full of lies.”
“We share information really well together ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â all the teams do ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â and we give each other racing room, ... It's fun to race with Matt and these other guys. Man, it's just unbelievable that our cars run this good.”
“Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-dark deep, even so I will endureâ€¦ For already have I suffered full much, and much have I toiled in perils of waves and war. Let this be added to the tale of those.”
“Everyone in Annawadi talks like this: 'Oh, I will make my child a doctor, a lawyer, and he will make us rich'. It's vanity, nothing more. Your little boat goes west and you congratulate yourself, 'what a navigator I am!' And then the wind blows you east.”

Source : Katherine Boo (2012). “Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum”, p.16, Portobello Books
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“There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.”
“It's up to the reader to decipher the code, or the words, based on everything they know about life and emotions.”
“There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described.”

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