"Instead, I quietly excused myself and went to the bar, to commune with spirits I know how to relate to."

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Source : Mary Roach (2010). “Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife”, p.159, Canongate Books

Mary Roach

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“When there's trouble in a family, it tends to show up in the weakest member. And all the other members of the family know that. They make allowances for the one in trouble.”

Source : Ross Macdonald (2010). “Sleeping Beauty”, p.65, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
“Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.”

Source : David A. Reisman, Aneurin Bevan (1996). “In Place of Fear”, Pickering & Chatto Publishers
“Every time an article is written about me or any of my contemporaries who's had the fortune and discipline to look good at a certain age, I am struck by the tone of astonishment, and the certainty that something is being done secretively to beat the devil.”
“A doctorâ€™s door should never be closed, a priest's door should always be open.”
“Even in the realest American cinema that I see, there's still not that sense that this is reality. There's still that sense that you are watching a movie. And hopefully, if we did get our jobs right, that sense disappears when you watch this movie.”
“I'll find you- Keep calling for me, Viola- Cuz here I come.”
“Each human being is unique, unprecedented, unrepeatable.”
“Always admired men who had many women. It must be that to a child of a dissatisfied woman the idea of monogamy is hollow.”

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