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“Joss's ears perked up. He loved libraries. Nowhere else in the world felt so safe and homey. Nowhere else smelled like books and dust and happy solitude quite like a library did.”

Source : Heather Brewer (2011). “First Kill”, p.90, Penguin
“Societies who do not care for their young people and old people are decadent, decaying societies.”
“Seven minutes is all you get to make a positive first impression. In the first seven minutes of contact with your church, your first-time guests will know whether or not they are coming back. Thatâ€™s before a single worship song is sung and before a single word of the message is uttered.”

Source : Nelson Searcy (2010). “Fusion: Turning First-Time Guests into Fully-Engaged Members of Your Church (Large Print 16pt)”, p.28, ReadHowYouWant.com
“I did not know that 'poetess' was an insult, and that I myself would some day be called one. I did not know that to be told I had transcended my gender would be considered a compliment. I didn't know â€” yet â€” that black was compulsory. All of that was in the future. When I was sixteen, it was simple. Poetry existed; therefore it could be written; and nobody had told me â€” yet â€” the many, many reasons why it could not be written by me.”
“Beyonce is good-looking. Jennifer Lopez is good-looking. Madonna used to be good-looking.”
“I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.”

Source : Nadine Gordimer (2012). “The Lying Days”, p.375, A&C Black
“Gaffe-focused journalism: revenge of intelligent people who know true evils are out there but lack the access/time to get to them.”
“The worshipful father and first founder and embellisher of ornate eloquence in our English, I mean Master Geoffrey Chaucer.”

Source : Caxton's edition (c.1478) of Chaucer's translation of Boethius 'De Consolacione Philosophie' epilogue

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