"I stand between two worlds. I am at home in neither, and I suffer in consequence. You artists call me a bourgeois, and the bourgeois try to arrest me...I don't know which makes me feel worse."

-- Thomas Mann

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“For it is humanly certain that most of us remember very little of what we have read. To open almost any book a second time is to be reminded that we had forgotten well-nigh everything that the writer told us. Parting from the narrator and his narrative, we retain only a fading impression; and he, as it were, takes the book away from us and tucks it under his arm.”
“The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.”
“Next time you see a yardful of sprouting dandelions, note that they look remarkably like things we call "flowers." And later, when the flowers turn into fluff balls, look closely at one of those fluff balls and ask yourself whether it's really so unattractive.”
“Since Deacon Hollingshead's arrival in town last July the Dominion had been hard at work, cleansing New York City of moral corruption. "Corruption" is a popular word with the enthusiasts of the Dominion, usually uttered as a prelude to the knife, the docket, or the noose.”
“A catless writer is almost inconceivable.”

Source : Barbara Holland (1994). “Secrets of the Cat: Its Lore, Legend, and Lives”, Ivy Books
“It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that's why I'm quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies.”

Source : "You have to laugh" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2004.
“We have to make sure the Good Friday Agreement works.”
“Saving nickels, saving dimes, working 'til the sun don't shine, looking forward to happier times.”

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