"She wanted something to happen - something, anything: she did not know what."

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Source : Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.196

Kate Chopin

“Bon Jovi's trick is to use heavy-metal chords and still sound absolutely safe. Rock & roll used to be rebellion disguised as commercialism; now so much of it is commercialism disguised as rebellion.”
“I've been keeping diaries for 27 years.”
“We always remember best the irrelevant.”
“Grandmother walked up over the bare granite and thought about birds in general. It seemed to her no other creature had the same dramatic capacity to underline and perfect events - the shifts in the seasons and the weather, the changes that run through people themselves.”
“Newspapers are horror happening to other people.”

Source : Nadine Gordimer (2013). “A Sport of Nature”, p.32, A&C Black
“In 50 years, no one will care about the fiscal cliff or the Euro crisis. They'll just ask, "So the Arctic melted, and then what did you do?"”
“When you're a child, the most important thing is to be able to live a life of comfort. You want to be sure that the moon goes up at night and the sun comes up in the morning and dad comes home from work.”
“If you don't stand for something, how can anyone respect what you do?”

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