"The facts are always less than what really happened."

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Source : Nadine Gordimer, Nancy Topping Bazin, Marilyn Dallman Seymour (1990). “Conversations with Nadine Gordimer”, p.76, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Nadine Gordimer

“The truth about intimate relationships is that they can never be any better than our relationship with ourselves.”

Source : James Hollis (1993). “The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife”, p.47, Inner City Books
“My agility is the CEO of the United Global Agility Corporation”
“The eyes of the Armenians speak long before the lips move and long after they cease to.”

Source : University of Texas at Austin. University Art Museum, Arshile Gorky (1975). “Arshile Gorky: drawings to paintings”
“I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.”

Source : "The Twelve Caesars" by Suetonius, August 28, 2013.
“The thrill is to keep envisioning what can be.”
“I always wanted to be a renaissance woman, do as many things as I possibly can and hopefully do them well or don't do them at all.”
“Anti-social behaviour still blights lives, wrecks communities and provides a pathway to criminality.”
“At 50 I find there is a long line of characters and shapes demanding words just outside my window.”

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