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“I only can write a book every two years, you know. And I write very fast, but I'm not always writing every day. I needed a contact with different things, like nature, for example. I cannot be in front of a computer trying to tell a story.”
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“The eye is complicated. It mixes the colors [it sees] for you ... The painter must unmix them and lay them on again shade by shade, and then the eye of the beholder takes over and mixes them again.”
Source : Elizabeth Borton de Treviño, Prentice Hall PTR, Prentice-Hall, inc (2000). “I, Juan de Pareja”
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“I have a great office.”
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“Every man must get to Heaven his own way.”
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“But things were different now. I finally had my head -pun intended- on straight.”
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“Regarding Ronald Reagan: In point of fact, the image of Ronald Reagan, the man responsible for shaping that decade (the 1980s), should be carved into Mount Rushmore, minted into coins, and emblazoned in a place of honor in every school child's history text as a constant reminder of this great man's contributions to world freedom, national pride, and individual prosperity. With the truth, the term 'Reaganomics' will be used only as a term of endearment and respect.”
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“No man can describe to another convincingly wherein lies the magic of the woman who ensnares him.”
Source : Algernon Blackwood (2015). “JOHN SILENCE SERIES – Complete Collection: A Psychical Invasion + Ancient Sorceries + The Nemesis of Fire + Secret Worship + The Camp of the Dog + A Victim of Higher Space: Supernatural mysteries of Dr. John Silence”, p.61, e-artnow
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“People do not care to give alms without some security for their money; and a wooden leg or a withered arm is a sort of draft upon heaven for those who choose to have their money placed to account there.”
Source : Henry Mackenzie (1820). “The man of feeling: and Julia de Roubigné, a tale”, p.18