"But then life is never neat, it is made up of doors and trapdoors. You move down baroque corridors, and even when you think you know which door to open, you still need to have the courage to choose."

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Source : J M Ledgard (2011). “Submergence”, p.33, Random House

J. M. Ledgard

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“Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs... Surely it would be a crime against humanity to reduce the proud Arabs so that Palestine can be restored to the Jews partly or wholly as their national home”
“From 143rd Street in Harlem to the center court at Wimbledon is about as far as one can travel.”
“The sea finds out everything you did wrong.”
“I try to create a place of disorientation.”
“The first of all qualities of a general is courage.”
“Of nothing comes nothing: springs rise not above Their source in the far-hidden heart of the mountains: Whence then have descended the Wisdom and Love That in man leap to light in intelligent fountains?”

Source : John Townsend Trowbridge (1874). “The Emigrant's Story: And Other Poems”, p.103
“I'm a godmother, that's a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that's cute, I taught her that.”
“When something is truly funny, it's funny all the time.”

Source : "Live From..." with Kyra Phillips, www.cnn.com. June 3, 2004.

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