"When you're used to being healthy and strong and vibrant and everything and then - bang - overnight you're desperately ill, it's frightening."

-- Ann Romney

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“When you're a mayor and you have a problem you blame the provincial government. If you are provincial government and you have a problem you blame the federal government. We don't blame the Queen any more, so once in a while we might blame the Americans.”
“Love is a power greater than death, just like the songs and stories told.”
“I think the power of image is in mystery - I endlessly create mysteries, by way of this dystopian message, to initiate intrigue.”
“The frequent repetition of miracles serves to provoke, where it does not subdue, the reason of mankind....”
“To advertisers: "Do not compete with your agency in the creative area. Why keep a dog and bark yourself?"”
“Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That's when I will be truly dead - when I exist in no one's memory. I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people. When that person dies, the whole cluster dies,too, vanishes from the living memory. I wonder who that person will be for me. Whose death will make me truly dead?”
“I don't have a talent, unless you count hunting illegally, which they don't. Or maybe singing, which I wouldn't do for the Capitol in a million years. My mother tried to interest me in a variety of suitable alternatives from a list Effie Trinket sent her. Cooking, flower arranging, playing the flute. None of them took, although Prim had a knack for all three. Finally Cinna stepped in and offered to help me develop my passion for designing clothes, which really required development since it was non-existent.”
“one reason we haven't any national art is because we have too much magnificence. All our capacity for admiration is used up on the splendor of palace-like railway stations and hotels. Our national tympanum is so deafened by that blare of sumptuousness that we have no ears for the still, small voice of beauty.”

Source : Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1915). “The Bent Twig”

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